Case Presentation: An 81-year old healthy male from Upstate New York without significant past medical history presented as a transfer from an outside hospital with a 5-6 day history of fevers, malaise, vague abdominal pain, and worsening confusion. There was no travel outside of the local area in the previous six months. The patient was […]

Case Presentation: Unstable hemoglobins occasionally occur as de novo mutations, often causing diagnostic dilemmas[1-3]. We herein present the 18th case and only the second recorded male case of Hemoglobin Hammersmith (HbHS)[4]. A 14-year-old Caucasian male with HbHS diagnosed at six months post-partum was conservatively managed with periodic blood transfusions and desafirox. Physical examination revealed growth […]