Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of hemoglobin-related blood disorders typically inherited. The most common type...
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symptoms of sickle cell disease that occur in a person who has two copies of that allele (is homozygous). Those who are heterozygous for the sickle cell allele...
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group of five ordinary black people, unified by family history of sickle cell disease. They unexpectedly develop superpowers and are pursued by a secret...
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Hemoglobin A (section Sickle cell disease)
symptoms of sickle cell disease. However, HbAS does not cause vaso-occlusive crisis, which is known to be associated with sickle cell disease. Patients...
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Hematologic diseases include rare genetic disorders, anemia, HIV, sickle cell disease and complications from chemotherapy or transfusions. Hemoglobinopathies...
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Hemoglobin C (redirect from Hemoglobin c disease)
state is called hemoglobin SC disease, and is generally more severe than hemoglobin C disease, but milder than sickle cell anemia. HbC was discovered by...
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Priapism (section Sickle cell anemia)
only somewhat hard. Very rarely, clitoral priapism occurs in women. Sickle cell disease is the most common cause of ischemic priapism. Other causes include...
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Exagamglogene autotemcel (redirect from Exa-cell)
brand name Casgevy, is a gene therapy used for the treatment of sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia. It was developed by Vertex...
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Hydroxyurea in sickle-cell disease (archived December 28, 2014 at [2]) Chapter 26 Fetal Hemoglobin Induction; Management of Sickle-Cell Disease 4th Edition...
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The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. (SCDAA) is a nonprofit organization with the sole purpose of supporting research, education and funding...
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cause prolonged anemia in the affected individuals. In people with sickle-cell disease or other forms of chronic hemolytic anemia, a blood disorder, the...
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Glutamine (section Sickle cell disease)
oral powder, marketed as Endari, to reduce severe complications of sickle cell disease in people aged five years and older with the disorder. The safety...
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Exchange transfusion (section Sickle Cell Disease)
transfusion is used in the treatment of a number of diseases, including sickle-cell disease and hemolytic disease of the newborn. Partial exchange might be required...
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blood cells (erythrocytes) from donors contain normal hemoglobin (HbA), and transfusion of normal red blood cells into people with sickle cell disease reduces...
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Sickle cell retinopathy can be defined as retinal changes due to blood vessel damage in the eye of a person with a background of sickle cell disease. It...
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Vaso-occlusive crisis (category Sickle-cell disease)
common painful complication of sickle cell anemia in adolescents and adults. It is a form of sickle cell crisis. Sickle cell anemia – most common in those...
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Osteomyelitis (category Bacterial diseases)
normal flora found on the skin and mucous membranes. In patients with sickle cell disease, the most common causative agent is Salmonella, with a relative incidence...
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Gene therapy (redirect from List of gene therapies for treatment of genetic disease)
focused on diseases caused by single-gene defects, such as cystic fibrosis, haemophilia, muscular dystrophy, thalassemia, and sickle cell anemia. Glybera...
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Moe, Soe; Ni, Han (2022-12-12). "Laser therapy for retinopathy in sickle cell disease". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2022 (12): CD010790...
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Hemoglobin subunit beta (section Sickle cell disease)
disorders such as sickle-cell disease and beta thalassemia, as well as beneficial traits such as genetic resistance to malaria. At least 50 disease-causing mutations...
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Hemoglobin (section Presence in nonerythroid cells)
cause no disease, but some cause a group of hereditary diseases called hemoglobinopathies. The best known hemoglobinopathy is sickle-cell disease, which...
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Vence L. Bonham Jr. (section Sickle cell disease)
Environmental Contributions to Sickle Cell Disease and Leg Ulcers Study), a longitudinal interdisciplinary study exploring sickle cell disease in adults that covers...
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Acute chest syndrome (category Red blood cell disorders)
vaso-occlusive crisis of the pulmonary vasculature commonly seen in people with sickle cell anemia. This condition commonly manifests with a new opacification of...
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the sickle cell disease to be less severe. In essence the HbF inhibits polymerization of HbS. A similar mechanism occurs with persons who have sickle cell...
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Voxelotor (category Sickle-cell disease)
treatment of sickle cell disease. Voxelotor is the first hemoglobin oxygen-affinity modulator. Voxelotor has been shown to have disease-modifying potential...
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Hydroxycarbamide (category Sickle-cell disease)
used in sickle-cell disease, essential thrombocythemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, polycythemia vera, and cervical cancer. In sickle-cell disease it increases...
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Hemoglobin D (category Genetic diseases and disorders)
trait, HbD-thalassemia, HbS-D (sickle cell) disease, and, very rarely, homozygous (inherited in both chromosome 11) HbD disease. It is the fourth hemoglobin...
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syndrome: 53 Niemann–Pick disease[citation needed] Phenylketonuria: 53 Porphyria: 53 Retinoblastoma[citation needed] Sickle-cell disease: 53 Sanfilippo syndrome[citation...
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similar to sickle cell disease. Patients with sickle cell-beta thalassemia may present with painful crises similar to patients with sickle cell disease[citation...
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Lovotibeglogene autotemcel (category Sickle-cell disease)
Lyfgenia, is a lentiviral gene therapy used for the treatment of sickle cell disease. The most common side effects include stomatitis (mouth sores of...
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