Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Child with Sickle Cell Anemia

Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a chronic haemoglobinopathy that can affect many organs in the body including gastrointestinal tract. However, colonic involvement is very rare and usually in the form of ischemic colitis. We are reporting an 11-year-old Saudi girl with SCA who presented with persistent d...

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Autores principales: Alqoaer, Khaled, Ahmed, Mohammed M., Alhowaiti, Efteraj S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25093137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/732785
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description Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a chronic haemoglobinopathy that can affect many organs in the body including gastrointestinal tract. However, colonic involvement is very rare and usually in the form of ischemic colitis. We are reporting an 11-year-old Saudi girl with SCA who presented with persistent diarrhea and was found to have inflammaftory bowel disease.
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spelling pubmed-41003852014-08-04 Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Child with Sickle Cell Anemia Alqoaer, Khaled Ahmed, Mohammed M. Alhowaiti, Efteraj S. Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a chronic haemoglobinopathy that can affect many organs in the body including gastrointestinal tract. However, colonic involvement is very rare and usually in the form of ischemic colitis. We are reporting an 11-year-old Saudi girl with SCA who presented with persistent diarrhea and was found to have inflammaftory bowel disease. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4100385/ /pubmed/25093137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/732785 Text en Copyright © 2014 Khaled Alqoaer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Child with Sickle Cell Anemia
title_full Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Child with Sickle Cell Anemia
title_fullStr Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Child with Sickle Cell Anemia
title_full_unstemmed Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Child with Sickle Cell Anemia
title_short Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Child with Sickle Cell Anemia
title_sort inflammatory bowel disease in a child with sickle cell anemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100385/
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