Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
Serum Ferritin and Severity Scores in Sickle Cell Disease Patients in Nnewi (South East Nigeria)
... Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) patients have mechanisms that are thought to protect them more than apparently normal individuals from iron ...in SCD, hypoferritinaemia may be ...
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DE ADDICTION POTENTIAL OF CLOVE (EUGENIA CARYOPHYLLATA LINN ) IN OPIATE ADDICTION IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE
... Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects millions of people worldwide and the disease is on the ...of SCD that can begin in infancy and increase in severity throughout ...in SCD ...
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Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites in Sickle Cell Disease Patients Attending Jos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
... that sickle cell disease (SCD) is made worse by infections; it was necessary to carry out this study to ascertain the occurrence of intestinal parasitic infections to the number of SCD ...
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Caries prevalence and impact on oral health-related quality of life in children with sickle cell disease: cross-sectional study
... by SCD sufferers, and that the same infarction process that afflicts other organs in the body may also affect the dental tissue ...to SCD and disease's clinical severity. Sickle-shaped cells were ...
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Health-Related Quality of Life and Predictive Role of Self-Efficacy in Iranian Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
... with SCD over 16 years were enrolled in the study by a consecutive sampling between February to July ...of sickle cell disease or sickle thalassemia in the medical records and 3) ...
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Severity of Anaemia has Corresponding Effects on Coagulation Parameters of Sickle Cell Disease Patients
... Sickle cell disease is associated with hypercoagulable state that may contribute to certain morbidities seen in the disease ...the disease contributing to the morbidity ...in SCD ...
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A randomized trial of artesunate amodiaquine versus artemether lumefantrine in Ghanaian paediatric sickle cell and non sickle cell disease patients with acute uncomplicated malaria
... Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common mono- genic disease ...worldwide. SCD is an autosomal recessive condition that results from substitution of glutamic acid with valine ...
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The prevalence of hypertension and abnormal kidney function in children with sickle cell disease –a cross sectional review
... Renal disease is a known contributor to mortality in adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) and renal abnormalities are evident in ...with SCD early in ...kidney disease ...
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Determination of the best method to estimate glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine in adult patients with sickle cell disease: a prospective observational cohort study
... Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the most common genetic hemoglobinopathies in which sickle hemoglobin leads to tissue hypoxia causing acute tissue damage and chronic organ ...
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Current challenges in the management of patients with sickle cell disease – A report of the Italian experience
... Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited red blood cell disorder caused by a structural abnormality of hemoglobin called sickle hemoglobin ...of SCD are mainly ...
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Telemedicine Expands Hydroxyurea Monitoring for Children Living with Sickle Cell Disease in Rural South Georgia
... Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is one of the most common genetic blood disorders in the United States (US) however, patients continue to experience barriers for receiving evidence-based standards ...
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The challenge of differentiating vaso-occlusive crises from osteomyelitis in children with sickle cell disease and bone pain: A 15-year retrospective review
... 22. Peltola H, Pääkkönen M, Kallio P, et al. Short- versus long-term antimicrobial treatment for acute hematogenous osteomyelitis of childhood: prospective, randomized trial on 131 culture-positive cases. Pediatr Infect ...
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Identifying strategies to help improve health related quality of life of children with sickle cell disease
... Ten studies (Barakat, Schwartz, Salamon, & Radcliffe, 2010; Dines, Whitehouse, Orne, Bloom, Carlin, Bauer, & Gilen, 1997; Gil, Wilson, Edens, Workman, Ready, Sedway, Redding-Lallinger, &Daeschner, 1997; Gil, ...
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Burden of Influenza-Related Hospitalizations Among Children With Sickle Cell Disease
... with SCD at substantially higher rates than among children without SCD has several possible explanations that warrant additional ...with SCD may receive influenza vaccination less reliably than ...
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Mycoplasma Disease and Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Disease
... mune adherence assay is a complement fixation as- say modified to increase the sensitivity by 8-fold, on par with enzyme immunoassays. Culturing M pneu- moniae is problematic, as the organism is both fastid- ious and ...
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A Controlled, Longitudinal Study of the Social Functioning of Youth With Sickle Cell Disease
... with SCD and com- parison peers were compared on all variables of social reputation, friend- ship, and likability with 2-tailed inde- pendent t tests ( ␣ ⫽ ...
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Nocturnal oxyhemoglobin desaturation and arteriopathy in a pediatric sickle cell disease cohort
... of SCD, cardiac disease, or an intercur- rent illness, arterial ischemic stroke in this group is ...in SCD, is followed by the second hit of nocturnal hemoglobin oxygen desaturation with or without ...
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Role of free radicals in the pathogenesis of acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease
... in sickle erythrocytes at ...of SCD, that there is increased oxidative burden and that alterations in the redox state may play a role in the development of ...these cell types in the generation of ...
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Trait Anxiety in Sickle Cell Disease: investigating and exploring links to the management of pain
... mechanisms that can be used to explain certain outcomes. This current study follows a perspective that rejects the traditional dualisms; constructivism did not allow for variables to be observed, which was necessary to ...
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Phase angle correlates with n-3 fatty acids and cholesterol in red cells of Nigerian children with sickle cell disease
... 13 SCD patients for 7 months with capsules containing eicosapentaenoic acid, docosa- hexaenoic acid and vitamin ...red cell membrane fluidity and deform- ...red cell activa- tion markers in subjects ...
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