Antonio Pessegueiro

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Sickle cell anemia

Sickle cell anemia I. What every physician needs to know. Sickle cell disease is a term used to describe a variety of genotypes and disease states associated with the hemoglobin sickle cell (HbS) gene and the sickling of red blood cells (RBCs). The HbS gene develops from a mutation in the sixth codon of the…

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