L-Arginine may be a conditionally essential amino acid in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease, particularly as required substrate in the arginine-nitric oxide pathway for endogenous nitrovasodilation and vasoprotection. Vasoprotection by arginine is mediated partly by nitric oxide-induced inhibition of endothelial damage and inhibition of adhesion and activation of leukocytes. Act...

Introduction: Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a disease in which hemoglobin S exists homozygous state, with prominent clinical features and wide range of phenotypes. This study aimed to determine the levels E-selectin how it correlated severity sickle patients.
 Methodology: was comparative cross-sectional study. Socio-demographic characteristics, full blood count, body mass index serum patien...

B11 l ;:OUlCHI B.. ‘TANAKA, GEO1 IE 0. CLIFF0III AND AluNoLm II. AXELItOI) S INCE the advemit of the newer t.echmiics for differentiatimig hemoglobimi types,’4 mio (‘ase of sickle cell anemia (homozygous 5) proven by these miiethods has I)eemi described imi which aseptic necrosis of the femnoral head was present. Aseptic miecrosis of the femnoral capital epiphysis has beemi reported by Smit.h a...