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Clinically healthy; sickle cell anemia; hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin, probably HPFH-1 with 79.63% F cells and 40.94% F reticulocytes; no history of pain crises; fatigue through childhood and adulthood; hematuria; pneumonia on two occasions; constipation; spleen 3 cm below left costal margin; both parents are carriers of the sickle gene; hemoglobin electrophoresis results: HbA = 0%, HbA2 = 2.8%, HbF = 22.7%, HbS = 74.5%; hemoglobin = 9.3 g/dl; MCV = 111.
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