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Higher resistance to Plasmodium falciparum infection in patients with homozygous sickle cell disease in western Kenya.
(1997)
Sickle haemoglobin (HbS) is considered to be protective against malaria. Malaria is fatal in homozygous sickle cell (HbSS) disease. In a cross-sectional survey by alkaline. Hb-electrophoresis of 766 residents of Western ...
Upper gastrointestinal mucosal lesions in dyspeptic patients with homozygous sickle cell disease in Kenya.
(1998)
A case controlled study comprising 51 patients with homozygous sickle cell (HbSS) disease who complained of dyspepsia and 41 age and sex matched non-HbSS control dyspeptic patients was carried out, to look at upper ...
Neurological complications of sickle cell anaemia at the Kenyatta National Hospital : A 5 year retrospective study
(1992)
In a five year retrospective study of 360 patients with homozygous (SS) sickle cell disease, eighteen (5%) were found to have neurological complications. Their ages ranged from 7 months to 21 years with a mean of 11.1 +/- ...
Sickle cell anaemia among Eti-Turks: haematological, clinical and genetic observations
(1986)
Haematological and genetic observations have been made on 71 SS Eti-Turk patients and their relatives from Cukurova (southern Turkey) and of immigrant families in The Netherlands. Similar data were collected for 25 Black ...
Platelet function in patients with sickle cell anaemia in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 1996)
From July 1990 to January 1991 we studied platelet functions in 55 indigenous Kenyan patients (23 males and 32 females) with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) in steady state (SCASS) and in 20 (11 males and 9 females) SCA patients ...
Renal and electrolyte profile in steady state sickle cell disease: observations in patients with sickle cell disease in The Netherlands.
(1989)
During a study of clinical and laboratory features in 83 patients with sickle cell disease in the Netherlands, serum creatinine, sodium, potassium, uric acid and osmolality were determined and reported for 65: 39 with ...
Sensorineural hearing loss in patients with sickle cell anaemia in Kenya
(1996)
The auditory function of sixty two Kenyan sickle cell anaemia patients aged seven to thirty years was compared to age-matched fifty five healthy controls with haemoglobin AA. Sensorineural hearing loss of 30 db and above ...
Clinical and laboratory features of sickle cell disease in The Netherlands
(1988)
Out of about 200 patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) in the Netherlands, 6% are non-negroid patients from Turkey. 83 were assessed clinico-haematologically regarding the type of SCD, ethnic origin, concurrent ...
Management of sickle cell disease: a review
(University of Nairobi, 1991)
The treatment of sickle cell disease is still mainly symptomatic. However, there have been major advances in understanding the pathophysiology of sickling syndromes. This in turn has led to a proper approach in the management ...
Survey of sickle cell disease in the Netherlands
(1984)
Through a questionnaire data were collected from 116 patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) in the Netherlands, about two thirds of all the patients with SCD in the country. Sixty-four percent of the patients are of ...