<unk>  <unk>  is an autosomal recessive form of hemolytic anemia characterized by an abnormal sensitivity of red blood cells to heat and erythrocyte morphology similar to that seen in thermal burns or from prolonged exposure of a healthy patient's blood sample to high ambient temperatures. Patients with<unk>  tend to experience severe hemolysis and anemia in infancy that gradually improves, evolving toward typical elliptocytosis later in life. However, the hemolysis can lead to rapid sequestration and destruction of red cells. Splenectomy is curative when this occurs.<unk>  has been associated with a defect of the erythrocyte membrane protein spectrin and with spectrin deficiency. It was characterized in 1975. It is considered a severe form of<unk>  elliptocytosis.
Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome
Congenital self-healing reticulohistiocytosis
Acute eosinophilic leukemia
Chronic eosinophilic leukemia
Peripheral T-cell lymphoma
Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm