A Bahrain study shows CT scans to check for blood clots in lung blood vessels increased significantly in people with sickle ...

A self-described sickle cell disease ... altered hemoglobin, a protein that allows red blood cells to carry oxygen to all parts of the body. Some individuals carry the sickle cell trait because ...

In children with sickle cell disease ... HbS to <20% and raise hemoglobin to 10-12.5 g/dl (D). If the patient has had a neurological event in the context of severe anemia (e.g. splenic ...

Both sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease are diagnosed through a simple blood test called haemoglobin electrophoresis, which determines the type of haemoglobin present in a person’s blood.

Red blood cells contain hemoglobin ... 14,000 children are born with the disease in Kenya annually.“The sickle cell disease burden follows malaria endemic patterns in Kenya.

Hemoglobin has played a central role in the understanding of many biochemical and biophysical principles, as Eaton and colleagues point out on page 351 of this issue of Nature Structural Biology.

Sickle-Cell Anemia A hereditary disease in which some of the red blood cells are shaped like crescents instead of disks has been traced to a defect in the molecule of hemoglobin By George W. Gray ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia ... because the trait confers some resistance to malaria. Their red blood cells, containing some abnormal hemoglobin, tend to sickle ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety ... High white cell count, low hemoglobin and oxyhemoglobin desaturation predict neurological complications.