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 ...

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.

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 ...

Julie Kanter, M.D., director of the UAB Adult Sickle Cell Clinic, says patients treated with this therapy are beginning to show signs of producing stable amounts of normal red blood cells containing ...

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

Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) continue to face severe complications, despite advances in treatment that have helped mitigate some risks. Increased ...

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.

Making fetal hemoglobin along with sickle hemoglobin renders a patient similar to someone with sickle cell trait, Bhatia explained; that’s when someone inherits one sickle cell gene and one ...

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.