The Patient:While there is a lot of information published on Sickle Cell Disease, there is comparatively less on the person with this hereditary affliction. This web site aims to correct the anomaly and be as complete a resource to the Sickle Cell Disease Patient as possible. ...
The Patient:While there is a lot of information published on Sickle Cell Disease, there is comparatively less on the person with this hereditary affliction. This web site aims to correct the anomaly and be as complete a resource to the Sickle Cell Disease Patient as possible. ...
(2006). Hope and destiny: A patient’s guide to sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait. Roscoe, IL: Hilton Publishing, Incorporated. Google Scholar Serjeant, G. R. (1992). The sickle cell trait. In G. R. Serjeant (Ed.), Sickle cell disease (2nd ed., pp. 415–425). New ...
Sickle Cell Trait A patient with sickle cell trait has a heterozygous trait of Hgb that is asymptomatic for the signs and symptoms of anemia, although RBCs may sickle under the conditions of high altitude, strenuous exercise, or anesthesia....
During hospitalization the patient developed priapism, a condition he had not experienced before. Given this was his first time with priapism, an extensive work-up revealed the patient had previously undiagnosed sickle cell trait, which we postulate to have been a significant factor in his ...
Sickle Cell Disease (Clinical) Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic disorders in which an abnormal Hb molecule (Hb S) transforms RBCs into sickle-shaped cells, resulting in chronic anemia, vasoocclusive episodes, pain, and organ damage. Sickle cell trait, which is the heterozygous...
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Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Related to sickle cell-thalassemia:thalassaemia,sickle cell thalassemia disease thal·as·se·mi·a (thăl′ə-sē′mē-ə) n. An inherited form of anemia occurring chiefly among people of Mediterranean descent, caused by faulty synthesis of part of the hemoglobin...
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Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is associated with a chronic proinflammatory state characterized by elevated leukocyte count, mortality from severe recurrent infections, and subsequent vasoocclusive complications with leukocyte adhesion to the endothelium and increased plasma levels of inflammatory cytokines. The ...