Sickle Cell Anemia |
Hb S disease; Hemoglobin S Disease; Herrick's anemia; SCD |
Sickle-cell disease is a general term for a group of genetic disorders caused by sickle hemoglobin (Hgb S or Hb S). In many forms of the disease, the red blood cells change shape upon deoxygenation because of polymerization of the abnormal sickle hemoglobin. This process damages the red blood cell membrane, and can cause the cells to become stuck in blood vessels. This deprives the downstream tissues of oxygen and causes ischemia and infarction. The disease is chronic and lifelong. Individu ...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- National Library of Medicine
- National Human Genome Research Institute http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation http://www.marchofdimes.com/
- Dolan DNA Learning Center
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Dept. of Energy, Human Genome Project
- Sickle Cell Disease Association of America
- Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System
- National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center
- Dept. of Agriculture
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Save Babies Through Screening
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, HHS http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center, NHLBI, NIH, HHS http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/infoctr/index.htm
- Sickle Cell Information Center, The http://www.scinfo.org/
- Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. http://www.sicklecelldisease.org
- Office of Medical Applications of Research http://odp.od.nih.gov/omar/
- National Library Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
- Lab Tests Online http://www.labtestsonline.org/
- Genetics Home Reference http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- HealthWorld http://www.healthy.net/

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