Relatively Benign Sickle-cell Anaemia in 60 Patients Aged Over 30 in the West Indies
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Relatively benign sickle-cell anaemia in 60 patients aged over 30 in the West Indies.
A study in Jamaica of 60 patients with sickle-cell anaemia over the age of 30 years showed that most of them were in full-time employment. Pains in the bones or joints, leg ulceration, and jaundice were the most frequent types of presentation, but only two patients had a haemoglobin level consistently below 6 g./ 100 ml. Most of the patients were well developed and of average height, and, thoug...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.3.5610.86