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Postoperative acute multiple organ failure after hepatectomy in a Nigerian male with sickle cell trait: a case report

BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a monogenic disease characterized by sickle hemoglobin (HbS). Patients homozygous for HbS experience symptoms resulting from sickled erythrocytes no later than adolescence. However, heterozygous HbS carriers, or those with the so-called sickle cell trait (SCT...

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Autores principales: Iwasaki, Toshimitsu, Nara, Satoshi, Nishimura, Yuuki, Ueda, Hiroki, Kishi, Yoji, Esaki, Minoru, Shimada, Kazuaki, Hiraoka, Nobuyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7803851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33438090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-020-01102-6