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Prevalence of Haemoglobine s in Araraquara-SP Population.
Revista Brasileira Multidisciplinar - ReBraM /Brazilian Multidisciplinay Journal, 2015 The Sickle Cell Anemia is a genetic hemoglobionopathy, characterized by an alteration in the hemoglobin molecule struture (HbA1), called hemoglobin S (HbS), which causes a distortion in the erythocytes structure, changing from spherical shape to sickle ...
Bruno Rocha de Jesus +4 more
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Novel use Of Hydroxyurea in an African Region with Malaria (NOHARM): a trial for children with sickle cell anemia [PDF]
, 2017 Hydroxyurea treatment is recommended for children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) living in high-resource malaria-free regions, but its safety and efficacy in malaria-endemic sub-Saharan Africa, where the greatest sickle-cell burden exists, remain unknown.
Hodges, James S. +8 more
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Advances in Hematology, 2021 Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disease that predominantly affects black people. It is very widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly at the Lehmann “sickle belt” level, where the prevalence of the hemoglobin S involves at least 10% of the ...
Jeannette Bassimbié Kakou Danho +4 more
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Haematologica, 2012 Background Little is known about the effects of blood rheology on the occurrence of acute chest syndrome and painful vaso-occlusive crises in children with sickle cell anemia and hemoglobin SC disease.Design and Methods To address this issue, steady ...
Yann Lamarre +13 more
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Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2014 Objective: The aim of the present study was to characterize sickle cell disease retinopathy in children and teenagers from Bahia, the state in northeastern Brazil with the highest incidence and prevalence of sickle cell disease.
Dayse Cury de Almeida Oliveira +5 more
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Haemoglobinopathies and newborn haemoglobinopathy screening in Germany. [PDF]
, 2009 Germany has been an immigration country since the early 1950s. In December 2007, 6.7 million non-German citizens lived in the country. However, the total number of citizens with a migration background is 15–20 million, about 9 million of whom come ...
Dickerhoff, R. +2 more
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THE STATE OF HEMOGLOBIN IN SICKLED ERYTHROCYTES [PDF]
The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1966 Electron microscopic and other evidence have provided support for the hypothesis that the sickling phenomenon is due to the intracellular formation of long slender crystals of reduced sickle hemoglobin. The rapid growth of these crystals causing tenting of the cell membrane is responsible for the bizarre distortion of the erythrocytes and presumably ...
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Sickle Retinopathy in a Person with Hemoglobin S/New York Disease
Case Reports in Genetics, 2012 A patient who presented with sickle retinopathy and hemoglobin electrophoresis results compatible with sickle cell trait was found, on further investigation, to be a compound heterozygote with hemoglobin S and hemoglobin New York disease.
Donovan Calder +4 more
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Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2017 Introduction: The benefits of manual versus automated red blood cell exchange have rarely been documented and studies in young sickle cell disease patients are scarce. We aim to describe and compare our experience in these two procedures.
Carlos Escobar +9 more
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Nutritional status of young children with inherited blood disorders in western Kenya. [PDF]
, 2014 To determine the association between a range of inherited blood disorders and indicators of poor nutrition, we analyzed data from a population-based, cross-sectional survey of 882 children 6–35 months of age in western Kenya.
Ruth, LJ +4 more
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