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Red Blood Cell Stiffness Driving Patient Symptoms: A Study of Red Blood Cell Population Rigidity in Sickle Cell Patient Genotype SC Relation to Overlooked Clinical Symptoms
2021-06-20
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a systemic hematological disease. Various genotypes of the disease exist; however, the two most common include hemoglobin SS (Hgb SS) and hemoglobin SC (Hgb SC) disease. Hgb SC is typically considered a less severe genotype; however, some patients with SC disease still have significant complications. Ektacytometry is utilized to measure red blood cell deformability in sickle cell patie...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 75d1dadf-9536-541b-a679-513b04568345
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.06.11.21257671
