Most of the literature focuses on patients with sickle cell disease, which produces higher concentrations of sickle hemoglobin and, therefore, is a contraindication to microvascular reconstruction. Fewer reports describe microsurgery in patients with sickle cell trait (SCT) who carry the heterozygous ...
Assertion : The person heterozygous for sickle- cell trait produces both normaland abnormal haemoglobin(HbS). Reason : Huamn normal allele and the sickle allele are codominant. View Solution Given below are assertion and reason. Point out if both are true with reason being correct explanation (A...
Purpose: Sickle cell or other hemoglobinopathy trait detected on the newborn screen provides an opportunity for genetic counseling of families at risk of having a child with a major hemoglobinopathy. However, follow-up of hemoglobinopathy trait is often fragmented and acceptance of counseling is low....
Areas covered We reviewed the literature to detect reports of the use of tourniquet in sickle cell disease or sickle trait. We found only three case reports and five case series, three of which controlled, none randomized, on the complications of tourniquet. Expert commentary From what we could...
Connes P, Harmon K G, Bergeron M F, Pathophysiology of exertional death associated with sickle cell trait: can we make a parallel with vaso-occlusion mechanisms in sickle cell disease?, Br J Sports Med. 2013 Mar;47(4):190Connes P, Harmon KG, Bergeron MF. Pathophysiology of exer- tional...
Pathophysiology of exertional death asso- ciated with sickle cell trait: can we make a parallel with vaso-occlusion mechanisms in sickle cell disease? Br J Sports Med 2013;47:190.Connes P, Harmon KG, Bergeron MF. Pathophysiology of exertio- nal death associated with sickle cell trait: Can ...