Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Managing Sickle Cell Disease

Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Managing Sickle Cell Disease

September 9, 2015
By: Dr. Joylene John-Sowah, M.D., M.P.H., National Institutes of Health

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) describes a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. People with SCD have abnormal hemoglobin, called hemoglobin S or sickle hemoglobin, in their red blood cells. Sickle cell disease is a painful and potentially fatal disease that affects approximately 100,000 Americans, mostly African-Americans, every year...

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