Osmotic deformability profiles of whole RBC populations from unsplenectomized and splenectomized HS patients.

Ektacytometry was performed on whole filtered blood obtained from an unsplenectomized spectrin/ankyrin-deficient patient (AZ15) and from a splenectomized family member (AZ16), from an unsplenectomized band 3–deficient patient (LR1) and from the splenectomized family member (LR2), and from a healthy control (NC).