«Conversations with Innovators:» UNC hematologist on promising drug trials for treating painful crises in sickle cell patients (news.unchealthcare.org)
«Conversations with Innovators:» UNC hematologist on promising drug trials for treating painful crises in sickle cell patients - (news.unchealthcare.org)
Patients with this mutation are not at all homogeneous in their clinical presentations: some develop principally painful crises with or without bony infarcts; others are prone to hemolytic crises; some develop vasoocclusive crises, including stroke; still others develop acute chest syndrome; while many are phenotypically normal, except for mild anemia. (msb.embopress.org)