Sickle cell disease

Introduction: Sickle cell disease

Description of Sickle cell disease

Sickle cell disease (medical condition): Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disorder characterized by red...more »

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Sickle Cell Anemia:
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  »Symptoms of Sickle Cell Anemia
  »Tests for Sickle Cell Anemia
  »Treatments for Sickle Cell Anemia

Sickle cell disease: a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Sickle cell disease: A disease characterized by chronic hemolytic anemia, episodic painful crises, and pathologic involvement of many organs. It is the clinical expression of homozygosity for hemoglobin S.
Source: Diseases Database

Sickle cell disease: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Sickle cell disease:

• Sickle cell
• Sickle cell disease
• Cell
• SYN
• Anemia (926 causes)
• Anemia symptoms (926 causes)

Sickle cell disease: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Sickle cell disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Sickle cell disease, or a subtype of Sickle cell disease, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Sickle cell disease as a Disease

Sickle cell disease: Another name for Sickle Cell Anemia (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Sickle Cell Anemia
  »Symptoms of Sickle Cell Anemia
  »Treatments for Sickle Cell Anemia

Sickle cell disease: Related Diseases

Sickle cell disease: Sickle cell disease is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Anemia
• Blood conditions
• Genetic Disease
• Autosomal Genetic Diseases
• Autosomal Recessive Genetic Diseases
• Recessive Genetic Diseases
• Carrier conditions
• Congenital conditions - blood disorders
• Congenital conditions
• Genetic conditions
• Bone marrow conditions

Symptoms of Sickle cell disease (Sickle Cell Anemia)

Some of the symptoms of Sickle cell disease incude:

• Common early symptoms (usually seen first in infants):
  • Anemia
  • Fatigue
  • Pallor
  • Shortness of breath

See full list of 81 symptoms of Sickle cell disease (Sickle Cell Anemia)

Treatments for Sickle cell disease (Sickle Cell Anemia)

Treatments for Sickle cell disease (Sickle Cell Anemia) include:

• Preventive antibiotics
• Preventive penicillin - especially for newborns, infants and children with SCA.
• Pain crisis treatments
  • Pain-killing drugs
  • Fluids

See full list of 18 treatments for Sickle cell disease

Treatment of Sickle cell disease: For more treatment information about Sickle cell disease, see treatment of Sickle Cell Anemia (Sickle cell disease)

Sickle cell disease: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Sickle cell disease:

• blood disorder
• crescent cell anemia
• sickle cell autosomal recessive genetic disease
• hemoglobin S
• HbS
• vasoocclusive crisis
• avascular necrosis
• isosthenuria
• acute chest syndrome
• hypertransfusion programs

Terms associated with Sickle cell disease:

Terms Similar to Sickle cell disease:

• Hb SS disease
• Sickle cell anemia

Source: Diseases Database

• Sickle cell anemia

Source - NIH

• sickle-cell anemia
• sickle-cell anaemia
• crescent-cell anemia
• crescent-cell anaemia
• drepanocytic anemia
• drepanocytic anaemia

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Sickle cell disease

• anemia
• anaemia
• monogenic disorder
• monogenic disease

Source - WordNet 2.1

The following terms can be used for Sickle cell disease

• sickle cell anemia

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Sickle cell disease

The following list attempts to classify Sickle cell disease into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• anaemia,anemia
• blood disease,blood disorder
• blood dyscrasia
• dyscrasia
• health problem,ill health,unhealthiness
• pathological state
• condition,status
• state

Source: WordNet 2.1

External links related to: Sickle cell disease

• OMIM - HEMOGLOBIN--BETA LOCUS; HBB
• Psychological therapies for sickle cell disease and pain (Cochrane Review)
• Sickle Cell Anemia - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• Handbook of Ocular Disease Management - Sickle Cell Disease
• Treatments for priapism in boys and men with sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• eMedicine - Sickle Cell Disease : Article by Hampton Roy, Sr, MD
• OMIM - SICKLE CELL ANEMIA
• eMedicine - Pediatrics, Sickle Cell Disease : Article by Nedra Dodds, MD
• Drugs for preventing red blood cell dehydration in people with sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• eMedicine - Anemia, Sickle Cell : Article by Ali Taher, MD
• Pneumococcal vaccines for sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• Blood transfusion for preventing stroke in people with sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• Inhaled bronchodilators for acute chest syndrome in people with sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• Hydroxyurea for sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• Malaria chemoprophylaxis in sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• Treatment for avascular necrosis of bone in people with sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• eMedicine - Sickle Cell Anemia : Article by Ariel Distenfeld, MD
• eMedicine - Sickle Cell Anemia : Article by Charles Pegelow, MD†
• GeneReviews: Sickle Cell Disease
• Splenectomy versus conservative management for acute sequestration crises in people with sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• Sickle cell anemia - Genetics Home Reference
• sickle cell anemia: bone manifestations
• Neonatal screening for sickle cell disease (Cochrane Review)
• eMedicine - Retinopathy, Hemoglobinopathies : Article by Brian A Phillpotts, MD

Source: Diseases Database

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