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Current Standards of Care and Long Term Outcomes for Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2017
Chonat Satheesh, Quinn Charles T
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Thalassemia and sickle cell disease (SCD) are disorders of hemoglobin that affect millions of people worldwide. The carrier states for these diseases arose as common, balanced polymorphisms during human history because they afforded protection against severe forms of malaria. These complex, multisystem diseases are reviewed here with a focus on current standards of clinical management and recent research...
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