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SICKLE CELL DISEASE [13 records]

Record 1 2026-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Visual Disorders
CONT

Sickle cell retinopathy is present in some patients with sickle cell disease. In sickle cell retinopathy, blockage of blood vessels in the retina and choroid... results in abnormal blood vessel growth and thinning of the retina.... Sickle cell maculopathy, which affects the center part of the retina, occurs when there is decreased blood flow to this part of the eye. This abnormal blood flow causes patches of retinal thinning... Patients will sometimes note blind spots as a result.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles de la vision
CONT

La drépanocytose est une maladie systémique hématologique induisant la survenue d'événements vaso-occlusifs de divers organes cibles. Sur le plan oculaire, l'atteinte rétinienne se caractérise par des occlusions préférentiellement artérielles et de la vascularisation terminale, pouvant se compliquer de néovascularisation périphérique. Longtemps ignorée, la maculopathie drépanocytaire est désormais bien caractérisée grâce à l'imagerie multimodale[. Une] étude de cas suggère que la maculopathie drépanocytaire, caractérisée par des amincissements rétiniens focaux, proviendrait d'une ischémie du plexus capillaire rétinien profond, à l'origine d'une atrophie tissulaire séquellaire.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
  • Human Diseases - Various
CONT

Chronic conditions are ongoing, long-term or recurring conditions that can have a significant impact on people’s lives.

CONT

Chronic medical conditions that present in youth include but are not limited to asthma, diabetes, epilepsy/seizures, obesity, cystic fibrosis, allergies, sickle cell anemia, irritable bowel diseases(e. g., ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease), migraines/headaches, juvenile arthritis, congenital heart defect, traumatic brain injury/spinal injury, and organ transplant...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
  • Maladies humaines diverses
CONT

Pour déterminer la présence de problèmes de santé chroniques, les participants se sont vus demander s'ils avaient «des problèmes de santé de longue durée», soit un état qui persiste ou qui devrait persister six mois ou plus, qui ont été diagnostiqués par un professionnel de la santé. Une liste de problèmes de santé leur a été lue, problèmes parmi lesquels les suivants ont été pris en considération dans [l']analyse : l'asthme, l'arthrite ou le rhumatisme, les maux de dos (autres que ceux dus à l'arthrite), la bronchite ou l'emphysème, le diabète, les maladies cardiaques, le cancer, les séquelles d'un accident vasculaire cérébral, l'incontinence urinaire, et le glaucome ou les cataractes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases - Various
  • Genetics
  • Blood
DEF

Any of the diseases associated with the presence of hemoglobin S and sickle cells ...

OBS

[It includes] sickle cell anemia, sickle cell-hemoglobin C disease, sickle cell-hemoglobin D disease, and sickle cell-thalassemia disease.

Key term(s)
  • sickle-cell disease

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines diverses
  • Génétique
  • Sang
CONT

Les altérations cellulaires sont une constante de la maladie drépanocytaire. En effet, dans sa forme désoxygénée l'HbS [hémoglobine S] polymérise et déforme le globule rouge qui devient fragile et rigide. Ce dernier prend alors la forme d’une faucille d'où le nom de falciformation donné à ce phénomène.

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases - Various
  • Genetics
  • Blood
CONT

People who inherit one sickle cell gene and one normal gene have sickle cell trait(SCT). People with SCT usually do not have any of the symptoms of sickle cell disease(SCD), but they can pass the trait on to their children.

Key term(s)
  • sicklaemia

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines diverses
  • Génétique
  • Sang
CONT

Le trait drépanocytaire caractérise l'individu qui a hérité d'un seul gène d'hémoglobine S d'un de ses parents. Le trait ne peut pas évoluer en anémie à cellules falciformes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades humanas varias
  • Genética
  • Sangre
DEF

Forma heterocigótica de la anemia drepanocítica, caracterizada por la presencia a la vez de hemoglobina S y hemoglobina A en los hematíes.

OBS

No se produce anemia ni otros signos de la anemia drepanocítica. Las personas que tienen ese rasgo son informadas y aconsejadas en relación con la posibilidad de tener un niño con drepanocitosis si ambos padres lo presentan.

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Record 5 2024-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases - Various
  • Genetics
  • Blood
CONT

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disorder of the globin chains that causes hemolysis and chronic organ damage. Sickle cell anemia is the most common form of sickle cell disease(SCD), with a lifelong affliction of hemolytic anemia requiring blood transfusions, pain crises, and organ damage.

OBS

... sickle cell anaemia is the main form of SCD [sickle cell disease], in which the person inherits the gene encoding sickle haemoglobin(HbS) from both biological parents.

Key term(s)
  • sickle-cell anemia
  • sickle-cell anaemia

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines diverses
  • Génétique
  • Sang
CONT

Pour qu'un enfant soit atteint d'anémie à hématies falciformes, il faut que ses deux parents lui aient transmis le gène de l'hémoglobine S. Si un seul parent lui transmet le gène, l'enfant sera lui aussi porteur du gène fautif, mais il ne souffrira pas de cette maladie.

OBS

drépanocytose : Bien que la désignation «drépanocytose» désigne l'ensemble des maladies causées par la présence d'hémoglobine S, certains auteurs l'utilisent comme synonyme de la désignation «anémie à hématies falciformes» qui correspond à la forme homozygote de la maladie falciforme.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades humanas varias
  • Genética
  • Sangre
CONT

La anemia falciforme es una anemia hemolítica severa con alto índice de mortalidad y es hereditaria con patrón de herencia autosómica recesiva.

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Record 6 2018-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Human Diseases
  • Blood
OBS

The Sickle Cell Foundation of Alberta(SCFA) is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to creating awareness about SCD [sickle cell disease] and providing support services to patients living in Alberta... The SCFA teaches patients coping skills for pain management, advocates for funding of SCD research and provides its members with access to the most current scientific research and information.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Maladies humaines
  • Sang
OBS

Organisme bénévole voué à la sensibilisation à la drépanocytose, [la] Sickle Cell Foundation of Alberta (SCFA) se consacre à offrir des services de soutien aux patients vivant en Alberta. [Les] patients atteints de drépanocytose [se font enseigner] les habiletés d'adaptation leur permettant de faire face à leur douleur […]

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cancers and Oncology
  • Cytology
DEF

The production of fibroblasts; cells of the fibrous tissue.

CONT

Diabetic retinopathy affects largely the posterior pole of the eye. The retinopathy of prematurity(previously known as retrolental fibroplasia) and sickle cell disease have their major impact on the peripheral retina.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cancers et oncologie
  • Cytologie
DEF

Formation de fibroblastes; cellules du tissu fibreux.

CONT

Fibroplasie rétrolentale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de cáncer y oncología
  • Citología
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Record 8 2012-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
  • Bones and Joints
DEF

In severe congenital hemolytic anemias, marked new bone formation perpendicular to the tables of the skull, producing a radial hair-on-end appearance. Although most commonly seen in patients with thalassemia, the hair-on-end pattern may also be produced in patients with sickle cell disease or spherocytosis, as well as in some persons with iron-deficiency anemia. [From EISER, 1984, p. 339. ]

OBS

hair-on-end appearance (of the skull)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
  • Os et articulations
DEF

Aspect radiologique strié de la voûte crânienne observé au cours de certaines anémies hémolytiques constitutionnelles et notamment dans la thalassémie.

Spanish

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Record 9 2012-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
CONT

Priapism, an unwanted painful erection, affects nearly two thirds of males with sickle cell disease and strikes most commonly between the ages of 5 and 13 years and 21 and 29 years.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
DEF

Érection prolongée douloureuse apparaissant sans excitation sexuelle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
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Record 10 2005-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Blood
OBS

Said of a type of anemia

CONT

Sickel cell disease(drepanocytic anemia) is an hemolytic anemia with RBC assuming characteristic sickle cell shape(drepanocytes) due to abnormal B globin subunit(substitution of valine for glutamic acid at the 6th position from the N-terminus). Roughly 8% of American blacks are heterozygous for the trait.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Sang
DEF

Se dit d'une personne atteinte d'anémie falciforme (ou drépanocytose).

Spanish

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Record 11 1996-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biotechnology
CONT

The degree of difficulty in finding a disease gene of interest depends largely on what information is already known about the gene and, especially, on what kind of DNA alterations cause the disease. Spotting the disease gene is very difficult when disease results from a single altered DNA base; sickle cell anemia is an example of such a case, as are probably most major human inherited diseases.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biotechnologie

Spanish

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Record 12 1994-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
CONT

Allogenic B. M. T. has been investigated as a curative treatment of anemia in S. C. D. [sickle cell disease]. Furthermore, correction of functional asplenia has been observed after B. M. T. ;it remains to be determined if such a treatment may reserve other organ damage and particularly bone abnormalities and osteonecrosis frequently associated with S. C. hemoglobinopathies.

OBS

Bone Marrow transplantation(B. M. T.) and correction of bone abnormalities associated with sickle cell disease(S. C. D.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
CONT

Évolution du tissu osseux après allogreffe de moelle osseuse chez l'adolescent drépanocytaire

Spanish

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Record 13 1991-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blood
CONT

Haemoglobin sickle cell disease is characterized by emboli formation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sang
CONT

L'hémoglobinopathie à hématies falciformes se caractérise par la formation d'emboles.

Spanish

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