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The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at the Medical University of South Carolina ...
By Linda Naa Deide Aryeetey Accra, May 28.GNA- Ghana and the global medical community are mourning the passing of Professor Felix Israel Domeno Konotey-Ahulu, a renowned Ghanian physician and ...
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There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes ...
spleen, kidneys and liver. People with one copy of the HbS gene are "carriers" of the sickle cell trait and may experience some symptoms. People with two copies of the gene develop sickle cell ...
Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia ... If the patient has had a neurological event in the context of severe anemia (e.g. splenic sequestration or aplastic crisis ...
Background: The Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea (HU) in Sickle Cell Anemia (MSH) previously showed that daily oral HU reduces painful sickle cell (SS) crises by 50% in patients with moderate to ...
Singer T-Boz revealed that when she was first diagnosed with the incurable sickle cell anemia, doctors told her she wouldn ... cell trait might experience complications such as death of spleen tissue ...
Medical advances are changing some of the hallmark physical symptoms of sickle cell disease, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye writes.