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Issue with timing of G6PD

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You can have false negatives in setting of acute hemolytic episodes because RBCs with severely reduced G6PD activity will have hemolyzed, and thus their activity will not be measured in the assay. So you need to repeat in a few months if negative or test before exposure to drug.

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