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| | Sickle-cell disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A recognized type of sickle crisis is the acute chest crisis, a condition characterized by fever, chest pain, and pulmonary infiltrate on chest x-ray. | | | The pain experienced by sickle-cell patients is also due to the bone ischemia. | | | What it does allow for, under conditions of low oxygen concentration, is the polymerization of the HbS itself. |
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| | Sickle Cell Anaemia Vhi Healthcare |
| | In an encouraging new development, some doctors are using sound wave studies of the blood vessels in the brains of children with sickle cell anaemia to identify those at high risk of a stroke, so that they can receive transfusions that will prevent it. | | | If he complains of a sudden, severe pain in one part of his body, for example, you'll know that's probably where the sickle cells are stuck. | | | The issue is still controversial and the theory unproven; still, if your child's a carrier, you may want to discuss the issue with your GP. |
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| | eMedicine - Anemia, Sickle Cell : Article by Ali Taher, MD |
| | Patients may experience depression, anxiety, and chronic pain behavior. | | | The major consequence of this sickle shape is that RBCs become much less deformable; therefore, they obstruct the microcirculation. | | | Arrange follow-up in a hematology clinic so that appropriate counseling can be given and new drugs, such as hydroxyurea, can be tried. |
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| | Genes and You - Genetic Disorders - Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | The outlook for sickle cell patients regarding quality and length of life has been much improved as the condition becomes better understood, active management is introduced and parents are informed. | | | Listen to what people with Sickle Cell Anaemia say about their condition. | | | If a student with the condition becomes suddenly unwell or complains of severe joint or chest pain, contact his/her parent/guardian or hospital doctor straightaway. |
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| | Sickle Cell Anemia |
| | People with sickle cell anemia can also experience complications from blood circulation and infection-fighting problems. | | | This helps infants with sickle cell anemia get the care and treatment they need right away. | | | Sickle cell anemia is not contagious, so you can't catch it from someone else or pass it to another person like a cold or other infection. |
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http://kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/blood/sickle_cell_anemia.html
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| | Genetic Diseases — Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | Basic treatment of a painful crises relies heavily on painkilling drugs and oral and intravenous fluids to reduce pain. | | | Since they cannot be replaced soon enough, the blood is chronically short of RBCs, a condition called anaemia. | | | These structures cause the RBCs to become stiff and assume a sickle shape. |
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http://www.chennaionline.com/science/BiotechCorner/09Bio05.asp
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| | Sickle Cell Anemia Treatment - Sickle Cell Anemia symptoms. |
| | This process produces the periodic episodes of pain and ultimately can damage the tissues and vital organs and lead to other serious medical problems. | | | MediFocus.com understands that consumers who are facing serious medical issues need access to credible, up-to-date medical information to help them make informed health-care decisions. | | | Sickle cell disease (CSD) is an inherited blood disorder, characterized primarily by chronic anemia and periodic episodes of pain. |
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| | MRC Research Updates. The sickling disease.Introduction. |
| | This blockage of capillaries leads to the chronic complications of sickle cell anaemia affecting all organs, such as kidney failure, recurrent leg ulcers, infection and painful deformity of the shoulder and hip joints. | | | Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited disease which can be extremely painful and debilitating. | | | Sickle cell anaemia ranges from a mild disorder to a crippling disease characterised by long term (chronic) anaemia which begins in infancy. |
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http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/content/5/biology/mrc/7/page1.html
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| | BBC - Health - Conditions - Sickle cell anaemia |
| | They are carriers of sickle cell anaemia and are only at risk of problems under extreme conditions, such as during major surgery. | | | BBC - Health - Conditions - Sickle cell anaemia | | | There is no cure for sickle cell anaemia, but the frequency and severity of crises and their complications can be reduced by prompt recognition and treatment. |
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| | Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | A crisis is a painful condition brought on by lack of oxygen in the red blood cells, causing them to change shape. | | | Complications of sickle cell disease may include pain, stroke, increased risk of infection, and leg ulcers. | | | Signs of sickle cell crisis include fever, mild jaundice (yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes), chest pain and shortness of breath. |
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http://www.labtestsonline.org.uk/understanding/conditions/sickle.html
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| | sickle cell disease - Everything That Begins With Cell |
| | Access a basic description of the hereditary condition and its effects, explore its epidemiology, and learn what treatments are available for it. | | | education, counseling, and research for patients with sickle cell disease. | | | Education, advocacy, and patient care for Sickle Cell Disease... |
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http://www.kinetek.ca/sickle-cell-disease
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| | Inheritance of Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | There is a one in two (50%) chance that any given child will get the sickle cell trait. | | | Sickle Cell Anaemia is called a recessive condition because you must have two copies of the sickle haemoglobin gene to have the disorder. | | | This is not an illness but means that you "carry" the gene and can pass it on to you children. |
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http://www.sicklecellsociety.org/education/inherit.htm
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| | Inclusive Technology - Sickle Cell |
| | Never restrict the amount the child drinks because of this - discuss the problem with the child's parents and advise them to talk to the child's doctor about it. | | | Sufferers may experience 'crises'; bouts of pain, anaemia, infections or jaundice. | | | Sickle cell trait is not an illness and people with trait are perfectly healthy. |
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| | Sickle cell anaemia 4-651 |
| | The effect on bone is most frequently from varying degrees of ischaemia, | | | Other haemoglobinopathies may affect the expression of Sickle cell bone disease. | | | a case of Sickle cell anaemia in the spine |
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| | sickle cell anaemia - General Practice Notebook |
| | Please read through our terms and conditions: 1. | | | Sickle cell anaemia is a chronic haemolytic disorder with intermittent acute crises. | | | Patients with sickle cell disease are homozygous for the mutant globin gene which has a substitution of valine for glutamine at the sixth position in the beta-subunit. |
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| | Healthinfo4u - Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | (Research on pain relief for sickle cell crisis. | | | Title: Family care-giving and chronic illness: how parents cope with a child with a sickle cell disorder or thalassaemia. | | | Title: Judging the effectiveness of analgesia for children and adolescents during vaso-occlusive events of sickle cell disease. |
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| | MedlinePlus: Sickle Cell Anemia |
| | Sickle Cell Pain (Beth Israel Medical Center, Dept. of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care) | | | Hydroxyurea Therapy Improves Survival in Most Severely Affected Sickle Cell Patients (04/01/2003, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) | | | Sickle Cell Research for Treatment and Cure (09/01/2002, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - Large PDF file |
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| | Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | I have also included some information concerning Hydroxyurea, a drug which has been "proven" to reduce serious crises by up-to fifty per cent (50%) (note: up-to means anything from 1-50%). | | | I have also included some information on on the other two types of Sickle Cell Disorder, Sickle Beta Thalassaemia and Haemoglobin SC Disease, but have mainly concentrated on Sickle Cell Anaemia as this is what I have and know most about. | | | This is because of the lack of understanding that people have of Sickle Cell Anaemia and I am trying to change this. |
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| | SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA |
| | This disease can have fatal consequences as it can affect different parts of the body. | | | At present, no cure exists but people with the disease can learn to control the symptoms. | | | When only one gene is present, a person has another form of sickle cell disease known as sickle cell trait in which they will not get the full blown disease. |
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http://www.mypharmacy.net.au/myph/ailmentsanddiseases/sickle_cell_anaemia.htm
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| | Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | Sickle cell anaemia is a "multisystem" problem, meaning that it can affect several different systems in the body. | | | There is no treatment for sickle cell anaemia. | | | The patients with sickle cell trait do NOT have the problems associated with true sickle cell disease, but could pass the DOMINANT form of the disease to their offspring. |
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| | sickle cell treatments - The Treatment Shop |
| | patients with sickle cell disease than in other chronic pain patients. | | | You are Here > The Treatment Shop > treatments > sickle cell treatments | | | are some of the treatments for sickle cell anemia being investigated through... |
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| | MRC Research Updates. The sickling disease.Managing sickle cell anaemia. |
| | A controversial form of treatment for a patient with sickle cell anaemia is bone marrow transplantation. | | | This disease-preventing (prophylactic) treatment may be maintained throughout life. | | | However, sickle cell anaemia is extremely variable in severity and it is impossible to predict the course the disease will take. |
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| | What is Sickle Cell Anaemia? |
| | Sickle Cell Disorder is a condition which is inherited from both parents. | | | These people have Sickle Cell Anaemia and can suffer from anaemia and severe pain. | | | When a person is found to have a sickle cell disorder it is important that all members of the family be tested. |
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| | Sickle cell anaemia |
| | Vichinsky E. New therapies in sickle cell disease. | | | Worsening anaemia often presents with tiredness and cardiac failure | | | 60% of patients with sickle cell anaemia will have one episode per year |
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http://www.surgical-tutor.org.uk/core/preop1/sickle_cell.htm
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| | sickle cell disease on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Xechem Receives Phase I NIH Grant for Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease with Niprisan -Hemoxin-. | | | Lung infections resulting from the patient's disinclination to take painful deep breaths are a frequent complication. | | | Cellerant Therapeutics Raises $16 Million to Advance Stem Cell-Based Therapies for Life-Threatening Diseases; Series B proceeds to fund cancer, sickle cell and autoimmune programs. |
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| | 24Dr.com Reference Library Congenital conditions - Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | Some affected people rarely see their doctors for sickle cell-related complaints; others may be hospitalised frequently. | | | The effects of sickle cell disease vary greatly from one person to the next. | | | Certain conditions such as infections may worsen a patient's anaemia by speeding up destruction of red blood cells or reducing red blood cell production. |
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| | KidsFirst for Health: illnesses - Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | KidsFirst for Health: illnesses - Sickle Cell Anaemia | | | Sickle cell anaemia is a problem with haemoglobin, the substance that carries oxygen to the organs of the body. | | | Personal details will not be stored for any purpose other than administering responses and feedback. |
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| | Malaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is thought that humans have been affected by malaria for about 50,000 years, and several human genes responsible for blood cell proteins and the immune system have been shaped by the struggle against the parasite. | | | Even when treated, serious neurological consequences may result from cerebral malaria, especially in children. | | | The parasite is relatively protected from attack by the body's immune system because for most of its human life cycle it stays inside liver and blood cells. |
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| | Sickle cell anaemia anemia: blood transfusions decreased stroke. |
| | Children with sickle cell anaemia who were given blood transfusions were less likely to have a stroke than those given standard care (NNT = 7 at 2 years). | | | 130 patients (aged mean 8 years, 60% male) children with sickle cell anaemia or sickle beta-thalassemia and had undergone two transcranial Doppler studies | | | Sickle cell anaemia anemia: blood transfusions decreased stroke. |
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| | SickleCell Anaemia |
| | Despite the fact that there are a large number of people with the condition, there is no current nation wide protocol for the management and treatment of the illness. | | | "Sickle Cell Anaemia" is a hard hitting documentary looking into the genetic illness and its implications for people living with the condition in today's society. | | | The project will dedicated to him and all that he achieved. |
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| | Sickle-cell anaemia does not prove evolution! |
| | He is the author of a major 643-page text, The Sickle Cell Disease Patient (Macmillan, 1991, ISBN 033339239-6). | | | The same could certainly be said for science and medicine in general. | | | Nothing has happened during the past 30 years in molecular biology in general, and the sickling phenomenon vis-à-vis malaria in particular, to have raised evolution from theory to established fact. |
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| | Malaria |
| | The clues were that malaria parasites invade human red blood cells, and that diseases of red blood cells such as thalassaemia and sickle-cell anaemia, which are the commonest group of genetic disorders in humans, are mainly found in populations exposed to malaria and their descendants. | | | The big question, about which we still have relatively little information, is the extent to which susceptibility to malaria is determined by genetic variation in the human immune system. | | | J B S Haldane proposed that such genetic diseases could have evolved through natural selection if people who inherit the genetic factor from only one parent (heterozygotes) are protected against malaria but the harmful effects are confined to the much smaller number of people who inherit the genetic factor from both parents (homozygotes). |
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| | Sickle Cell Disease Association of America -- SCDAA Home |
| | The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA) is excited by the news that the Blood Products Advisory Committee (BPAC) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given a positive review of Exjade® (deferasirox) for once-daily oral treatment of adults and children with chronic iron overload due to blood transfusions. | | | Sickle Cell Disease Association of America -- SCDAA Home | | | The "T" in the R&B group TLC found inspiration for the lyrics to their No. 1 single "Unpretty" in her blood -- literally. |
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| | Sickle Cell Anaemia |
| | Information Center for Sickle Cell and Thalassemic Disorders | | | A very good description of the Sickle Cell disease | | | The following sites provide excellent descriptions and explanations of Sickle Cell Anaemia. |
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