Hydroxyurea is an oral medicine that can help reduce sickle cell disease complications. This fact sheet will provide the facts about hydroxyurea, potential benefits and risks, and questions to ask your healthcare provider. Print Length:
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The purpose of these guidelines is to help people living with sickle cell disease (SCD) receive appropriate care by providing the best science-based recommendations to guide practice decisions. The target audience is primary care providers and other clinicians, nurses, and staff who provide emergency or continuity care to individuals with SCD.
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Sickle cell trait does not turn into sickle cell disease. In contrast, people with sickle cell disease have two copies of the hemoglobin S gene. Some people have sickle cell disease because they have one hemoglobin S gene and another gene for a different faulty hemoglobin. Without a gene to produce normal hemoglobin A, red blood cells break ...
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Cure Sickle Cell Initiative. A national health education program that aims to bring greater visibility to blood diseases and disorders like anemia, sickle cell disease and others, their diagnosis, treatment and management, and blood safety by translating research for patients and professionals. The NHLBI is a global leader in blood-related ...
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Prenatal screening. Healthcare providers can also diagnose sickle cell disease before a baby is born. This can be done in two ways. The first uses a sample of amniotic fluid (the liquid in the sac surrounding a growing embryo). The second uses a sample taken from the placenta (the organ that attaches the umbilical cord to the womb).
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It filters your blood and destroys old blood cells. In people who have sickle cell disease, red blood cells may get trapped in the spleen. This makes the spleen quickly grow larger than normal. Serious anemia can occur when red blood cells get trapped in the spleen. A large spleen may also cause pain in the left side of the belly.
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Serious pain linked with sickle cell disease often requires treatment in a clinic or hospital. Fatigue (extreme tiredness), shortness of breath, dizziness, and irregular heartbeat. These are symptoms of serious anemia. Life-threatening anemia can be caused by conditions such as a splenic sequestration crisis crisis or an aplastic crisis .
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However, in sickle cell disease, the body has trouble keeping up with the rate that the cells are being destroyed. This can lead to a low number of red blood cells, called anemia. The resulting anemia can cause a person to be easily tired with less energy. Normal red cells and sickled red cells.
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Sickle cell disease — also called sickle cell anemia — is a group of inherited disorders that affect hemoglobin , the major protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells. Normally, red blood cells are disc-shaped and flexible so they can move easily through the blood vessels. In sickle cell disease, red blood cells are misshaped, typically ...
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View fact sheet. Crizanlizumab-tmca is approved for adults and children ages 16 years and older who have sickle cell disease. The medicine is given through an intravenous (IV) line in the vein once a month. The medicine helps prevent blood cells from sticking to blood vessel walls and blocking blood flow.
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