Sickle cell anaemia
Hearing loss among children with sickle cell anaemia in Uganda
... Sickle cell anaemia is still a public health issue in ...of sickle cell trait among babies is ...of sickle cell is high in Uganda, little is known about the prevalence and ...
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Describing acute chest syndrome in children with sickle cell Anaemia
... with Sickle cell anaemia diagnosed 3 years previously in University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Calabar and who had not been regular with clinic attendance and routine ...
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Incidence of Sickle Cell Anaemia and Thalassaemia in Central India
... haemoglobinopathies-sickle cell anaemia, thalassae- mia and other abnormal haemoglobins contribute to ge- netic diseases and imbalance health profile of a nation in general and Vidarbha region in ...
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Iron Status of Multiple Transfused Sickle Cell Anaemia Patients Attending a Sickle Cell Clinic in Benin City, Nigeria
... Sickle cell anaemia is a chronic debilitating hematological condition often requiring frequent blood transfusions in order to maintain a manageable haematocrit and also increase the possibility of ...
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Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Two Nigerian Adolescents with Homozygous Sickle Cell Anaemia
... of sickle cell anaemia (SCA), clinical experience indicates that co-existence of SCA with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes is a rare finding ...of sickle cell gene is high ...for ...
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Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio in Sickle Cell Anaemia Patients with Nephropathy
... Sickle cell anaemia (SCA) is an autosomal recessive genetic disease with a prevalence rate of 3% in Nigeria [1]. The disease is characterized by recurrent acute events, known as ‘crises’ and ...
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Prevalence of stroke in children admitted with sickle cell anaemia to Mulago Hospital
... with sickle cell disease (SCD) and also lack of dedicated sickle cell clinic’ s outside of Mulago hospital to provide the necessary care to this high risk ...dedicated sickle ...
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Clinical and haematological profile of children with sickle cell anaemia admitted to a rural medical college of Chhattisgarh, India
... date newborn screening practice is not followed in all parts of central India, particularly the tribal population of Chhattisgarh and lack of infrastructure also makes this difficult in other parts of the state. ...
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Serum levels of leptin in Nigerian patients with sickle cell anaemia
... Table 1 presents demographic and haematological charac- teristics of the sickle cell anaemia (SCA) patients and the non-SCD control. Of the 55 patients enrolled, 31 were steady SCA patients and ...
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Cocos Nucifera Water: Therapeutic Benefits and Sickle Cell Anaemia a Review
... the cell and sodium, water and chloride coming in to account for the water intake or sickling reversal ...red cell membrane, thus decreasing the level of destruction of the ...red cell polymerization ...
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CASE STUDY ON SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA WITH DACTYLITIS PHARMACIST INTERVENTION AND PATIENT COUNSELLING
... Sickle cell disease refers to the group of disorders that affects haemoglobin to form abnormal haemoglobin molecules ...(HbS). Sickle cell anaemia is the name of the specific form of ...
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Foetal haemoglobin and disease severity in sickle cell anaemia patients in Kampala Uganda
... with sickle cell anaemia in Mulago Hospital have high levels of ...with sickle cell anaemia as this may have value in coun- selling on patient follow up, prognosis and also ...
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Comparison of Diastolic Function of Homozygous Sickle Cell Anaemia with Haemoglobin AA Children Using Basic Mitral Inflow Doppler Echocardiography
... Chronic anaemia from any cause is associated with several changes in cardiovascular haemodynamics ...in sickle cell anaemia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality ...in ...
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Sickle cell anaemia and the experiences of young people living with the condition
... the sickle cell anaemia clinical nurse specialist (Anionwu and Leary, 2012) is critical to enhancing the young people’s views of support and enabling them along their personal journeys, advocating on ...
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Pentazocine Abuse in Two Siblings with Sickle Cell Anaemia
... Two female siblings aged 14 and 17 years were referred to our emergency unit on account of recurrent bone pains in the past 10 months. They were both sickle cell anaemia patients, diagnosed at age ...
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The frequency and severity of epistaxis in children with sickle cell anaemia in eastern Uganda: a case-control study
... Sickle cell anaemia (SCA) is a genetic condition of grow- ing public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where an estimated 250,000 children are born with the disease every year ...
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Evaluation of Protein C in Nigerian Patients with Sickle Cell Anaemia in Steady State
... 40 sickle cell anaemia patients in steady state (point in time with no painful episodes within 1 month before the observation) [17] compared with 40 age and sex-matched healthy HbAA ...
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Erythrocyte indices in Pre-school Nigerian Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia in Steady State.
... without sickle cell anaemia as a screening tool for ...red cell indices of children with sickle cell anaemia will differ from those of children without sickle ...
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Cholelithiasis in Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia: A Cross Sectional Analysis from Northeast Nigeria
... with sickle cell anaemia in Burkina Faso (West Africa), despite having a study population and perhaps environmental factors similar to this ...with sickle cell anaemia, the use ...
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Therapeutic Effects of Camel Milk to Sickle Cell Anaemia Patient
... routine sickle cell disease ...in sickle cell anaemia, patients were assessed during a six weeks ...packed cell volume (PCV), platelet, red blood cell (RBC) and white ...
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