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Cardiovascular complications of sickle cell disease.
Trends in cardiovascular medicine - 1 Apr 2021
Sachdev Vandana, Rosing Douglas R, Thein Swee Lay
Abstract excerpt
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, and a global health problem. Pathological features of the abnormal hemoglobin (HbS) result in 2 hallmarks of the disease - recurrent episodes of acute microvascular occlusion and chronic hemolytic anemia - that inflict continuous and insidious damage to multiple organs. With improved childhood survival, SCD in adults has...
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