INTRODUCTION Haematuria is one of the clinical manifestations of sickle cell nephropathy. Although dipstick urinalysis detects haemoglobin and by extension haematuria; it does not confirm haematuria. Urine sediment microscopy confirms haematuria and constitutes a non-invasive "renal biopsy". The need to correlate dipstick urinalysis and urine sediment microscopy findings becomes important becau...

A young female with sickle cell disease was treated for biopsy-proven IgA nephropathy. Serum creatinine levels resolved to normal range, but a year later, she presented with oedema, hypertension and acute renal failure. A repeat renal biopsy showed acute-on-chronic thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). We suggest that circulating microparticles could be a pathophysiological link between sickle cell...

Abstract Background and Aims Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) was introduced as cheap readily assessed biologic markers of subclinical inflammation in sickle cell disease. Microalbuminuria hyperfiltration, early Sickle nephropathy (SCN) have been reported to be associated with platelet-to-lymphocyte (PLR). This association has not yet Congolese disease (SCD) children. Therefore, the aim prese...

background: studies have demonstrated that sickle cell trait can be found in an asymptomatic healthy carrier with normal complete blood count (cbc) and red blood cell (rbc) indices. according to iranian ministry of health bulletin instructions, prenuptial thalassemia screening program (tsp) primarily depends on rbc indices which are measured through a routine cbc. only when these levels are bel...

BACKGROUND Sickle cell nephropathy (SCN) is an important cause of mortality in patients with sickle cell disease. SCA with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is known in children and less common in adults, however diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis (DPLN) with SCN has rarely been reported in adults. It requires early diagnosis and aggressive management. CASE PRESENTATION We present here a ...

Chronic nephropathy is a recognized complication of sickle cell disease. Using a transgenic sickle mouse, we examined whether oxidative stress occurs in the sickle kidney, the origins and functional significance of such oxidant stress, and the expression of the oxidant-inducible, potentially protective gene, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1); we also examined the expression of HO-1 in the kidney and in c...