Abstract Ninety-nine Saudi Arabian children aged between 3 months and 15 years attending
the sickle cell anaemia (SCA) clinic were studied using a review of case notes and an …

Sickle cell anaemia (SCA) occurs frequently in several regions of Saudi Arabia but the
haematological and clinical presentations are significantly variable. We investigated 264 …

AIM Sickle cell anaemia contributes the equivalent of 25% of under 5 deaths in Africa, with
up to 16% of such deaths occurring in some West African countries. The aim of this study …

The clinical spectrum of sickle cell disease (SCD) in the Arabian Peninsula varies widely.
This is the first report in Yemeni children. Methods: A hospital-based, cross-sectional study …

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a collective term for a number of genetic disorders in which
hemoglobin is structurally abnormal, resulting in the episodic formation of sickle-shaped red …

Methods A sample size of 45,682 children and adolescents from newborn to 19 years of age
was selected by multistage random probability sampling of the Saudi households from each …

The pattern of illness in 60 consecutive children with homozygous sickle cell disease who
attended the Paediatric Emergency Room of a busy Lagos hospital with acute illness was …

Methods We conducted a monocentric descriptive retrospective hospital study in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, over a ten-year period. All children with major sickle cell …

BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a common disease in Saudi Arabia, with a
high prevalence in the Eastern and Southern regions. This study reports on 53 cases of SCD …

Forty-five Saudi children with sickle cell homozygote state were followed up for two years.
Two different patterns of disease emerged. One, which was of mild nature and unusually …