Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia
The social consequences of sickle cell and thalassaemia: improving the quality of support
... by sickle cell and thalassaemia (Anionwu and Atkin, ...(UK Thalassaemia Society, 2005; Lucas et al., 2008; Sickle Cell Society, ...
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Narrative as Re-Fusion : Making Sense and Value from Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Trait
... having sickle cell/thalassaemia ...seven sickle cell/thalassaemia non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and, combined with snowball sampling, recruited 57 genetic carriers from ...
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Effectiveness of earlier antenatal screening for sickle cell disease and thalassaemia in primary care: cluster randomised trial
... The trial design was robust and the likelihood of bias was low: allocation to trial arms was randomised, with allocation concealed to participants before the inter- vention and the primary end point was reported for all ...
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Preconception risk assessment for thalassaemia, sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis and Tay Sachs disease
... for thalassaemia, sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, or Tay-Sachs disease have been limited by duration of follow up and to assessment of psychological or knowledge ...
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An investigation into the regulation of haemostasis in sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia
... Sickle cell disease (SCD) and p thalassaemia (p thal) are congenital blood disorders caused by abnormal or inadequate haemoglobin synthesis ...
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Incidence of Sickle Cell Anaemia and Thalassaemia in Central India
... significantly to the load of haemoglobinopathies in this region which ultimately going to be a great challenge imbalancing the genetic constitution and threat to these populations in this region. Since many of the ...
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Haptoglobin, alpha-thalassaemia and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphisms and risk of abnormal transcranial Doppler among patients with sickle cell anaemia in Tanzania
... Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography measures cerebral blood flow veloc- ity (CBFv) of basal intracranial vessels and is used clinically to detect stroke risk in children with sickle cell anaemia (SCA). ...
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Living with Sickle Cell or Beta Thalassaemia Trait: Implications for Identity and Social Life : Summary of research findings for health and social care professionals
... beta thalassaemia, Anne felt ‘lucky’ that neither of her children were affected by the ...that thalassaemia thing (trait) but that’s quite common in Greek people,’ and that was ...
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Inherited blood disorders, genetic risk and global public health: framing 'birth defects' as preventable in India
... framing sickle cell and thalassaemia – a closely related spectrum of two historically racialised, recessively inherited blood disorders (IBDs) – within a ‘ crisis rhetoric ’ of contagion in public ...
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... Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disorder which is caused due to a mutation in the β- globin ...in sickle cell patients in ...heterozygous Sickle cell-β+ thalassaemia ...
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Health-related quality of life of adolescents with sickle cell disease in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study
... A number of disease-related factors have been found to affect quality of life (QoL) in children with SCD such as vulnerable socioeconomic status, age of the patient by physical manifestations of SCD notably in the form ...
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The Warped One: Nationalist Adaptations of the Cuchulain Myth
... Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic blood disorder that can adversely affect the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of those with the disease, including elevated rates of internalizing symptoms of ...
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Significant Reduction of Vitamin B12 Levels in Sudanese Sickle Cell Disease Patients
... homozygous sickle cell disease by hemoglobin electro- phores is admitted to Jaffer ibnoof teaching hospital, Khartoum, Sudan; their age ranged from 6 month to 15 years as patients ...
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SICKLE CELL DISEASE- AN AYURVEDIC PERSPECTIVE .......
... of Sickle Cell disease (SCD) each year is a major public health problem in ...be sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease ...of Sickle Cell ...
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Study of clinical profile of painful crisis in hospitalized children of sickle cell anemia
... Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive genetically transmitted hemoglobinopathy responsible for considerable morbidity and ...of Sickle cell ...
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Parental Receptivity to Neonatal Sickle Trait Identification
... Rubin EM, Rowley PT: Sickle cell trait/hereditary persist- ence of fetal hemoglobin trait: Misdiagnosis as sickle cell. anemia by newborn screening[r] ...
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Specifying sickle cell disease interventions: a study protocol of the Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium (SCDIC)
... Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that results in a lifetime of anemia, severe pain, and end-organ damage that can lead to premature ...the Sickle Cell ...
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Clinical utility of carotid and transcranial ultrasound in cerebrovascular diseases
... Abstract: Carotid and transcranial (CTU) ultrasound is a useful tool in a number of clinical settings, particularly in cerebrovascular diseases. CTU is the only method that provides real-time determination of velocity ...
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Retinopathy Revealing Cerebral Venous Thrombosis in Sickle Cell Disease in Niger
... of sickle cell disease involving visual prognosis, cerebral venous thrombosis is another complication to look for in any sickle cell ...
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OXYGEN DISSOCIATION CURVES IN SICKLE CELL ANEMIA AND IN SUBJECTS WITH THE SICKLE CELL TRAIT
... Table I indicates that despite efforts to keep the pCO2 constant in all studies, the mean pCO2 for the experimental points calculated in the cases of sickle cell anemia was higher than t[r] ...
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