Background Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is now one of the most common serious genetic condition in England. There is no reliable estimate of the total number of people living with SCD in the UK, to support commissioners and providers of services for people with SCD.Dormandy, ElizabethJames, ...
A model of resistance to falciparum malaria provided by the sickle-cell gene in heterozygous state is presented based on earlier hypotheses, the life cycle of P. falciparum within its human host, and the nature of host response. Falciparum populations are reduced in size with each cycle of eryt...
Blood transfusion remains an important therapeutic intervention in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), aiming to both increase the oxygen carrying capacity of blood and to reduce the complications of vaso-occlusion. Simple, manual exchange and automated exchange can be effective in reducing the ...
Research into sickle cell disease is personal, Hyacinth said, as his nephew has SCD and he and his son both havesickle cell trait. People with sickle cell trait inherit one sickle cell gene from a parent and typically do not have symptoms of SCD, but they can pass the trait on to their...
They found that when oxygen is very low, or under hypoxia, similar to what is seen in post-capillary vessels, sickle red cells are two to four times more likely to get stuck to the blood vessel walls than they are at normal oxygen levels. ...
The use of tourniquets for upper and lower extremity operative procedures is controversial in patients with sickle cell hemoglobinopathies. The authors used Ovid and MEDLINE, PubMed, and CINAHL to detect English-language reports of any surgical procedure where a tourniquet was used on a patient wi...
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a common hereditary disease in Iran. In developed countries, newborn screening programs have been established to ensure early diagnosis, but in most developing countries, screening is not performed and the diagnosis is often delayed. The aim of the present work was ...
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a family of inherited red blood cell disorders that occur when hemoglobin—the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout your body—takes on a C, or sickled, shape, instead of a healthy oval shape. Cells become hard and sticky, blocking blood ...