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  2. Sickle Cell Disease Association of America - Wikipedia

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    The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. (SCDAA) is a nonprofit organization with the sole purpose of supporting research, education and funding of individuals, families those who are impacted by sickle cell disease.

  3. Pure red cell aplasia - Wikipedia

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    Autoimmune disease.; Thymoma. [2]Viral infections such as HIV, herpes, parvovirus B19 (Fifth disease), [3] or hepatitis. [citation needed]Lymphoproliferative.Association of pure red cell aplasia with T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia is well recognized, especially in China.

  4. Retinopathy - Wikipedia

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    Again, the result is reduced blood flow to the retina causing tissue damage. Sickle cell disease compromises blood flow by causing blood to sludge, or thicken and flow slowly, through the retinal arteries. Other disorders that cause hyperviscosity syndrome may also cause blood sludging.

  5. Pernicious anemia - Wikipedia

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    Pernicious anemia was a fatal disease before about the year 1920; until the importance of the liver in hematopoiesis was recognized, the treatment of pernicious anemia was unsuccessful and arbitrary. It may have motivated George Whipple, who had a keen interest in liver diseases, to investigate the liver's role in hematopoiesis. Whipple began ...

  6. Medical genetics of Jews - Wikipedia

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    This would be similar to the hemoglobin allele which is responsible for sickle-cell disease, but solely in people with two copies; those with just one copy of the allele have a sickle cell trait and gain partial immunity to malaria as a result. This effect is called heterozygote advantage. [27]

  7. Hemoglobin D-Punjab - Wikipedia

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    People with hemoglobin D trait do not have Hemoglobin D disease or sickle cell disease. They cannot develop these diseases later in life. They cannot develop these diseases later in life. While Hemoglobin D can be detected without a DNA test, one is needed to ascertain that a person who carries Hemoglobin D carries hemoglobin D-Punjab.

  8. Sickle cell nephropathy - Wikipedia

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    Sickle cell nephropathy is a type of kidney disease 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 red ...

  9. Bornholm disease - Wikipedia

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    Niels Ryberg Finsen also described the disease in Iceland in 1874. [19] In 1933, Ejnar Sylvest gave a doctoral thesis describing a Danish outbreak of this disease on Bornholm Island entitled "Bornholm disease-myalgia epidemica", and this name has persisted. In 1949 the Coxsackie B virus was isolated and established as an etiology of Bornholm ...