ICD-11 classes
03 Diseases of the blood or blood-forming organs
Anaemias or other erythrocyte disorders
Haemolytic anaemias
Congenital haemolytic anaemia
3A10 — Hereditary haemolytic anaemia
3A10.2 — Hereditary elliptocytosis
ICD-11 3A10.2 — Hereditary elliptocytosis
Hereditary elliptocytosis is a group of rare conditions caused by abnormalities in the red cell cytoskeleton and marked by the presence on blood smears of numerous elliptical red blood cells, called elliptocytes. Clinical presentations are highly heterogeneous ranging from asymptomatic forms to more severe forms associated with variable anaemia, from moderate to severe and with pyropoikilocytosis including fragmented red cells, microelliptocytes and microspherocytes.
It includes 4 items.
- Common hereditary elliptocytosis
- Homozygous hereditary elliptocytosis
- Spherocytic elliptocytosis
- Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.