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Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation - Alexandria; Southwest Louisiana Sickle Cell Anemia, Inc. - Lake Charles; Maryland. Maryland Sickle Cell Disease Association, Inc. (MSCDA) Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. - Baltimore; Massachusetts. Greater Boston Sickle Cell Disease Association - Dorchester; Michigan
The acute chest syndrome is a vaso-occlusive crisis of the pulmonary vasculature commonly seen in people with sickle cell anemia. This condition commonly manifests with a new opacification of the lung(s) on a chest x-ray .
Nephrology. Sickle cell nephropathy is a type of nephropathy associated with sickle cell disease which causes kidney complications as a result of sickling of red blood cells in the small blood vessels. The hypertonic and relatively hypoxic environment of the renal medulla, coupled with the slow blood flow in the vasa recta, favors sickling of ...
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