Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder that causes lifelong suffering – here’s what you need to know
Accumulation of clots causes some of the most severe symptoms of sickle cell disease, including strokes, kidney failure, ...
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Groundbreaking sickle cell disease treatment approved for English NHS
Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic blood disorder characterised by the production of an abnormal haemoglobin, known as haemoglobin S.
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Sickle Cell Disease: Key Facts and Lifelong Impact
Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy travelling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different ...
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A Case of Persistent Anemia and Alcohol Abuse
and stomatocytes (erythrocytes with an oval or rectangular area of central pallor) and microspherocytosis can be seen. Spherocytes are typically found in patients with hemolytic anemia ...
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Enterokinase deficiency associated with novel TMPRSS15 gene mutations: a case report
Case presentation: A 2-month-old female infant presented with chronic diarrhea, vomiting, pallor, general edema, skin lesions, and a failure to gain weight. Further examination revealed anemia, ...
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42 Neurological findings of vitamin B12 deficiency in infancy
Most of these had pallor (11), 5 had failure to thrive, 5 had hyperpigmentation of skin, 4 had glossitis, and 1 had jaundice. Anaemia was determined in 37,2% of the cases. Bicytopenia was determined ...
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Erythema nodosum as the initial presentation of leprosy in a 15-year-old boy: a case report on Ethiopia’s persistent elimination challenges
Conjunctival pallor was also noted. Dermatologic examination revealed ... suggestive of microcytic hypochromic anemia with neutrophilic leukocytosis, while other investigations including abdominal ...