Complications A potential complication that may occur in children that suffer acute anemia with a<unk>  count below 5.5 g/dl is silent stroke A silent stroke is a type of stroke that does not have any outward symptoms (asymptomatic), and the patient is typically unaware they have suffered a stroke. Despite not causing identifiable symptoms a silent stroke still causes damage to the brain, and places the patient at increased risk for both transient ischemic attack and major stroke in the future.
Hemoglobin Lepore syndrome
Freeman–Sheldon syndrome
3-M syndrome
Sick cell syndrome
Beta thalassemia
Hughes–Stovin syndrome
Fryns-Aftimos syndrome
Diamond–Blackfan anemia