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Severe maternal morbidity according to sickle cell disease genotype

open access: yesPregnancy
Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic hemoglobinopathy that disproportionately affects individuals of African descent and is associated with elevated risks of maternal complications.
Tetsuya Kawakita   +3 more
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Sickle cells and sickle trait in thrombosis [PDF]

open access: yesBlood, 2019
The blood cells form a beautiful and elegant system. For a century, hematologists have comfortably understood that each type of blood cell has its own independent function in immunity, hemostasis, or oxygen transport, but in this issue of Blood, Faes and colleagues show that nature is far more efficient than that.
openaire   +2 more sources

Co-Inheritance of Sickle Cell Trait and Thalassemia Mutations in South Central Iran [PDF]

open access: yesIranian 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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Sickle Cell Trait and Sudden Death

open access: yesSports 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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Prevalence of sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait in national neonatal screening studies

open access: yesRevista 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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A Unique Cause of Intestinal and Splenic Infarction in a Sickle Cell Trait Patient

open access: yesCase 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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Sickle Cell Trait Presenting as Unilateral Proliferative Retinopathy and Macular Thinning in a Pregnant Woman

open access: yesCase Reports in Ophthalmological Medicine, 2021
Background. To report a case of a pregnant woman with sickle cell trait (SCT) who presented with unilateral proliferative sickle cell retinopathy. Case Presentation.
Sepideh Ghods   +7 more
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Sickle cell hemoglobin D disease First reported case in IRAN [PDF]

open access: yesActa Medica Iranica, 1978
A case of sickle cell Hb D disease IS reported in  young Iranian male. the father of whom carried an AS sickle cell trait and the mother an AD trait. This disease was diagnosed by Hb electrophoresis. agar gel electrophoresis sickling and solubility tests.
mohamad mehdi aflatouni, mohamad malek
doaj   +1 more source

Alpha‐globin gene triplication and its effect in beta‐thalassemia carrier, sickle cell trait, and healthy individual

open access: yeseJHaem, 2021
The genotype and phenotype correlation between coinheritance of heterozygous beta‐thalassemia with the alpha‐globin triplication is unclear. In this study we have investigated and reviewed alpha triplication frequency in beta‐thalassemia carriers, sickle
Mohammad Hamid   +6 more
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The scope of clinical morbidity in sickle cell trait

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics, 2014
Sickle cell trait (SCT), the heterozygous state of the sickle hemoglobin beta globin gene (HbAS) is carried by as many as 100 million individuals including up to 25% of the population in some regions of the World.
Azza A.G. Tantawy
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