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Automated screening of sickle cells using a smartphone-based microscope and deep learning [PDF]
npj Digital Medicine (2020), 2019 Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a major public health priority throughout much of the world, affecting millions of people. In many regions, particularly those in resource-limited settings, SCD is not consistently diagnosed. In Africa, where the majority of SCD patients reside, more than 50% of the 0.2-0.3 million children born with SCD each year will die ...
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Coexisting Cardiac and Hematologic Disorders. [PDF]
, 2016 Patients with concomitant cardiac and hematologic disorders presenting for noncardiac surgery are challenging. Anemic patients with cardiac disease should be approached in a methodical fashion.
Goldhammer, Jordan E., Kohl, Benjamin A.
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Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2009 Liver involvement in patients with sickle cell anemia/trait includes a wide range of alterations, from mild liver function test abnormalities to cirrhosis and acute liver failure. Approximately 15–30% of patients with sickle cell anemia present cirrhosis
Luca Santi +7 more
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Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2014 Background: Sickle cell anemia is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by an increased production of proinflammatory cytokines including tumor necrosis factor-alpha.
Marília Rocha Laurentino +5 more
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Safety and efficacy of blood exchange transfusion for priapism complicating sickle cell disease. [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Priapism is unwanted painful penile erection that affects about 36% of boys and men with sickle cell disease (SCD) most of whom have sickle cell anemia. Clinically, priapism could be stuttering, minor, or major.
Adeyoju +23 more
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Blood, 2017 To the editor: The prognosis of sickle cell anemia (SCA), initially disastrous in the severe forms of the disease, has greatly improved, leading to increased life expectancy. More than 95% to 99% of the children diagnosed with SCA in developed countries
I. Berthaut +14 more
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Haploidentical HSCT for hemoglobinopathies: improved outcomes with TCRαβ+/CD19+-depleted grafts
Blood Advances, 2018 : We examined outcomes of haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation (haplo-HCT) using T-cell receptor αβ+ (TCRαβ+)/CD19+-depleted grafts (TCR group, 14 patients) in children with hemoglobinopathies.
Javid Gaziev +11 more
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The Virginia Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Program: Education, Screening, and Counseling [PDF]
, 1977 In 1968, a program of screening for sickle trait carriers was begun as part of the work of the Hematology Division, Department of Medicine, at the Medical College of Virginia.
Cooper, Florence N., Scott, Robert B.
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Invasive bacterial infections in Gambians with sickle cell anaemia in an era of widespread Pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccination [PDF]
, 2016 Background: There is relatively little data on the aetiology of bacterial infections in patients with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) in West Africa, and no data from countries that have implemented conjugate vaccines against both Streptococcus pneumoniae and ...
Anderson, ST +5 more
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Hemoglobin E Disorders in South Gujarat – A Study Of 35 Cases
National Journal of Community Medicine, 2012 Background:Among the inherited disorders of blood, hemoglobinopathies and thalassemia constitute a major bulk of non-communicable genetic disease in India.
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