Sickle cell disease is prevalent in several parts of the world. Most of the hospitalizations in these patients are related to pain crisis episodes. Moreover, the levels of hemoglobin are lower in sickle cell disease ...

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder of red blood cells that is caused by a single mutation in the β-globin gene. The disease, which afflicts millions of patients worldwide mainly in low income countries, is ...

Sickle cell anemia is considered the most common inherited monogenic disease in the world. Currently, there are at least 300,000 diagnosed cases. In the disease, erythrocytes that have hemoglobin S undergo a sickling ...