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A Health Educational Program for Mothers with Children Suffering from Sickle Cell Anemia [PDF]
Helwan International Journal for Nursing Research and PracticeBackground: Sickle cell anemia is a hereditary blood disorder characterized by the production of abnormal hemoglobin. Children with sickle cell anemia suffer from chronic pain, frequent infections, and fatigue due to the blockage of blood flow and the ...
Marwa Younes
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Haematologica, 2013 The aim of the study was to determine the factors associated with resting and exercise-induced hemoglobin oxygen desaturation. The well-established six-minute walk test was conducted in 107 sickle cell children (50 with sickle hemoglobin C disease and 57
Xavier Waltz +12 more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1922 Recent medical literature contains the records of three patients, all negroes, or negroes with an admixture of Caucasian blood, in whom severe anemia, characterized by certain peculiar morphologic alterations of the red blood cells, was present. The first case was reported by Herrick.1Washburn2published the records of a patient whose blood showed ...
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Nutritional status, hospitalization and mortality among patients with sickle cell anemia in Tanzania
Haematologica, 2011 Background Reduced growth is common in children with sickle cell anemia, but few data exist on associations with long-term clinical course. Our objective was to determine the prevalence of malnutrition at enrolment into a hospital-based cohort and ...
Sharon E. Cox +8 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2018 Objective By measuring the associations between the presence of sickle cell and β-thalassemia genes, we assessed the extent to which these hemoglobinopathies contribute to the high prevalence of anemia observed in preschool-aged children and women of ...
James P. Wirth +4 more
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Treating sickle cell anemia [PDF]
Science, 2020 New drugs, stem cell transplants, and gene therapy show promise in treating sickle cell ...
John F, Tisdale +2 more
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Prevalence of sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait in national neonatal screening studies
Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2011 Sickle cell anemia is the best known hereditary blood disorder; there are serious complications associated with the condition. Diagnosis and early intervention reduce morbidity and mortality.
Luciana Garcia Lervolino +5 more
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Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2019 Treatment of severe malaria with artemisinin derivatives in patients with comorbid conditions such as sickle cell anemia must be considered with precaution.
Abdulrahman Hummadi +3 more
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The kidney in sickle cell anemia
Kidney International, 1975 In 1910, Herrick described the first authentic case of sickle cell disease in a young student from Grenada in the West Indies [1]. He records that he was “uncertain whether the blood picture represented merely a freakish poikilocytosis or is dependent on some peculiar physical or chemical condition of the blood or is characteristic of some particular ...
Alleyne, George A.O. +4 more
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Haematologica, 2009 Background Recent evidence suggests that red blood cell aggregation and the ratio of hematocrit to blood viscosity (HVR), an index of the oxygen transport potential of blood, might considerably modulate blood flow dynamics in the microcirculation.
Julien Tripette +10 more
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