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A disease characterized by chronic hemolytic anemia, episodic painful crises, and pathologic involvement of many organs. It is the clinical expression of homozygosity for hemoglobin S.
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- Anemia, Sickle Cell
- HbS Disease
- Hemoglobin S Disease
- Sickle Cell Disease
- Sickle Cell Disorders
- Sickling Disorder Due to Hemoglobin S
- Anemias, Sickle Cell
- Cell Disease, Sickle
- Cell Diseases, Sickle
- Cell Disorder, Sickle
- Cell Disorders, Sickle
- Disease, Hemoglobin S
- Hemoglobin S Diseases
- Sickle Cell Anemias
- Sickle Cell Diseases
- Sickle Cell Disorder
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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PL 92-294: Natl Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act; sickle cell dis goes here unless specifically HEMOGLOBIN SC DISEASE or HEMOGLOBIN C DISEASE or SICKLE CELL TRAIT or THALASSEMIA; /drug ther: consider also ANTISICKLING AGENTS
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sickle Cell Anemia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000755. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000755
- Sickle Cell Anemia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease
- Sickle Cell Anemia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185034