Use of a tourniquet in patients with sickle-cell disease.

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Fifteen patients, 13 male and two female, known to be carrying the sickle-cell gene (12 HbSS and 3 HbAS), who were undergoing operations requiring a bloodless field, were included in the study. Of the 12 with HbSS, seven had haemoglobin A1 component of between 11 and 27%, three had fetal haemoglobin ranging from 5.7 to 29% and the remaining two had increased haemoglobin A2 concentrations suggesting a beta...

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