Quality of life improvement for patients with sickle cell disease
โ Scribed by Leigh T. Ramsey; Kristy F. Woods; Leigh A. Callahan; George A. Mensah; Paule Barbeau; Bernard Gutin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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It is now possible to slow the disease progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but documented improvement in the quality of life of ALS patients has been difficult to quantitate. Putative mechanisms involved in motor neuron degeneration in ALS include oxidative damage, mitochondrial dysf
Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) form immune alloantibodies more frequently than other transfused populations because red cells (RBCs) from white donors (with a higher incidence of certain Rh, Duffy, Kell, and Kidd blood group antigens) are transfused to black patients often lacking these ant