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Preoperative blood transfusions for sickle cell disease

2020-07-02

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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the commonest severe monogenic disorders in the world, due to the inheritance of two abnormal haemoglobin (beta globin) genes. SCD can cause severe pain, significant end-organ damage, pulmonary complications, and premature death. Surgical interventions are more common in people with SCD, and occur at much younger ages than in the general population. Blood transfusions are freque...

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DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd003149.pub4

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