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Sickle Cell Anemia: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

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Overview: Sickle cell disease denotes all genotypes that contain at least 1 sickle gene in which hemoglobin (Hb)S makes up at least half of the Hb present. In addition to homozygotic HbSS (sickle cell anemia), in which ...

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Tags: Anemia, Sickle-Cell Anemia, Disease and Condition, Genes, Children's Health

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder of hemoglobin synthesis. The resulting abnormal hemoglobin causes a normocytic, hemolytic anemia with multiple diversely shaped RBCs that are susceptible to morphologically changing into a sickle shape. These sickled ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Sickle cell disease is an inherited condition that causes a variety of symptoms as a child ages. Learn more. http://bit.ly/dascm3

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