New considerations in the treatment of sickle cell disease.

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The familial pattern of recurring pain and early death seen so often among those affected by sickle cell disease has been long recognized within African cultures, though its first clear description in Western medical literature did not appear until 1910 (1). Although most common in persons of African ancestry, the mutation giving rise to the sickle gene arose independently in several locations where malaria was...

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