Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of hemoglobin-related blood disorders typically inherited. The most common type...

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...

hydrops fetalis, causing spontaneous miscarriage. In people with sickle-cell disease or other forms of chronic hemolytic anemia such as hereditary spherocytosis...

Sickle cell nephropathy is a type of nephropathy associated with sickle cell disease which causes kidney complications as a result of sickling of red blood...

symptoms of sickle cell disease. However, HbAS does not cause vaso-occlusive crisis, which is known to be associated with sickle cell disease. Patients...

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...

Hydroxyurea in sickle-cell disease (archived December 28, 2014 at [2]) Chapter 26 Fetal Hemoglobin Induction; Management of Sickle-Cell Disease 4th Edition...

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...

only somewhat hard. Very rarely, clitoral priapism occurs in women. Sickle cell disease is the most common cause of ischemic priapism. Other causes include...

blood cells (erythrocytes) from donors contain normal hemoglobin (HbA), and transfusion of normal red blood cells into people with sickle cell disease reduces...