Management of sickle cell disease: challenges and risks of transfusion

Management of sickle cell disease: challenges and risks of transfusion

Graham R Serjeant Sickle Cell Trust (Jamaica), Kingston, Jamaica Abstract: Homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease is associated with rapid red cell destruction and a tendency to block flow in blood vessels. The bone marrow expansion needed to compensate for the rapid red cell destruction increases meta...

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Main Author: Serjeant GR
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dove Medical Press 2016-10-01
Series:International Journal of Clinical Transfusion Medicine
Subjects:
sickle haemoglobin
HbS
transfusion
oxygen affinity
anaemia
vaso-occlusion
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