Living with Sickle Cell Disease means that every treatment comes with its own side effects. Today, we will focus on the dangers of blood exchange or transfusion and the risk of iron overload. In ...

Case 2. L.M., a Negro boy, had had symptoms of sickle-cell anemia since 11 months of age. He was hospitalized at the age of 3 years because of vomiting, abdominal and leg cramps, pain and swelling ...

Twelve children with sickle-cell anemia, ranging in age from eight months to 14 years, were studied. All had typical hematologic features, including severe hemolytic anemia and irreversibly ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of conditions that affect a person’s red blood cells, causing them to take a sickle shape that can't move through blood vessels easily and can block oxygen from ...