Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely ... Those infected cells flow through the spleen, which culls them out because ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution ... as well as congestion and fibrosis of the spleen at an early age.

People with sickle cell disease are immunocompromised, which means they have an increased risk of infection. For this reason, immunizations are an important part of complete sickle cell care.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One of Vanderbilt's latest studies has found a cure for sickle cell disease. Sickle cell is a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood cell proteins.

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attacks ...