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Sickle cell disease status among school adolescents and their tribal community in South Gujarat [PDF]
Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2009 Objectives: to create awareness, to screen samples of school adolescents and then to reach their community through them by doing surveillance for sickle cell disease. Design: Field based cross-sectional study. Settings: St Xavier`s high school and Vanraj
Bipin Vasava +3 more
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The Lancet Global Health, 2016 Background: Sickle cell disease contributes substantially to mortality in children younger than 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda, 20 000 babies per year are thought to be born with sickle cell disease, but accurate data are not available.
Grace Ndeezi, MBChB PhD +10 more
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Co-Inheritance of Sickle Cell Trait and Thalassemia Mutations in South Central Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2012 Background: We aimed to determine the incidence of co-inheritance as well as interaction of sickle cell trait (SCT) and αthal/βthal mutations in south and south central of Iran.
N Saleh-gohari, M Mohammadi-Anaie
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Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2019 Background This study describes the incidence, demographic characteristics, and geographic distribution of sickle cell anemia (SCA) and sickle cell trait births in Michigan.
Sarah L. Reeves +5 more
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Exertional sickling: Questions and controversy [PDF]
, 2014 Sickle cell trait (SCT) occurs in about 8% of African-Americans and is often described to be of little clinical consequence. Over time, a number of risks have emerged, and among these are rare but catastrophic episodes of sudden death in athletes and ...
Blinder, Morey A., Russel, Sarah
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Sickle Cell Trait and Sudden Death
Sports Medicine - Open, 2018 Sickle cell trait has long been considered a benign condition but continues to be the leading cause of death in young African Americans in military basic training and civilian organized sports.
Bruce L. Mitchell
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A Unique Cause of Intestinal and Splenic Infarction in a Sickle Cell Trait Patient
Case Reports in Surgery, 2013 Sickle-cell trait is a common genetic abnormality in the African American population. A sickle-cell crisis in a patient with sickle-cell trait is uncommon at best. Abdominal painful crises are typical of patients with sickle cell anemia.
Sofya H. Asfaw +5 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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Comorbidities in aging patients with sickle cell disease. [PDF]
, 2018 Sickle cell disease (SCD) in general and sickle cell anemia in particular is a highly complex disorder both at the molecular and clinical levels. Although the molecular lesion is a single-point mutation, the sickle gene is pleiotropic in nature causing ...
Ballas, Samir K.
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Clinical outcome and prognostic factors in renal medullary carcinoma: a pooled analysis from 18 years of medical literature [PDF]
, 2015 INTRODUCTION: We describe clinical features and prognostic factors of renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) by performing a pooled analysis of all reported cases since 1995.
CORTESI, Enrico +5 more
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