Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Sickle Cell Disease: A Review

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder of abnormal haemoglobin commonly encountered in the West African sub-region. It has varied osteoarticular and non-osseous complications that mimic some surgical conditions. The most common orthopaedic complications include avascular necrosis, osteom...

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Autores principales: Vaishya, Raju, Agarwal, Amit Kumar, Edomwonyi, Edwin O, Vijay, Vipul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2015
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26623213
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.358
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description Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder of abnormal haemoglobin commonly encountered in the West African sub-region. It has varied osteoarticular and non-osseous complications that mimic some surgical conditions. The most common orthopaedic complications include avascular necrosis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, etc. A cautious and painstaking evaluation is required in handling these patients. Acute care and anaesthetic precautions are vital in ensuring an uneventful postoperative period.
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spelling pubmed-46596892015-11-30 Musculoskeletal Manifestations of Sickle Cell Disease: A Review Vaishya, Raju Agarwal, Amit Kumar Edomwonyi, Edwin O Vijay, Vipul Cureus Pathology Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder of abnormal haemoglobin commonly encountered in the West African sub-region. It has varied osteoarticular and non-osseous complications that mimic some surgical conditions. The most common orthopaedic complications include avascular necrosis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, etc. A cautious and painstaking evaluation is required in handling these patients. Acute care and anaesthetic precautions are vital in ensuring an uneventful postoperative period. Cureus 2015-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4659689/ /pubmed/26623213 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.358 Text en Copyright © 2015, Vaishya et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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