Risk Factors and Complications Among Pediatric Patients With Sickle Cell Anemia: A Single Tertiary Center Retrospective Study

Background and objective Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is one of the common genetic diseases in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This disease results from a genetic mutation that causes malformation of the red blood cells (RBCs), leading to various systemic complications, including vaso-occlusive crisi...

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Autores principales: Alzahrani, Fatma, Fallatah, Anas M, Al-Haddad, Fatimah M, Khayyat, Shahad T, AlMehmadi, Wasayf M, AlQahtani, Bashaier G, Alamri, Rawabi S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7851883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33552759
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12440