Czech researchers help track down new blood disease

The Medical Faculty at Brno’s Masaryk University has played a part in research which has discovered a new type of hereditary blood disease. The disease manifests itself through a shortage of blood platelets and has been found to increase the likelihood of the onset of leukaemia. Long term research by laboratories in the United States and Italy helped in the breakthrough discovery. Scientists’ suspicions were aroused by the high number of patients with blood disorders whose children also had low platelet counts. Platelets help blood to clot.

Author: Chris Johnstone