Clinical Pearl: Clinical Pearl: Evaluation of Stillbirth Among Pregnant People with Sickle Cell Trait.

Autor: Wielicka, Melanie, Pomaville, Monica, Hageman, Joseph
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Zdroj: Neonatology Today; Jan2022, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p145-146, 2p
Abstrakt: The article reports that Universal newborn screening for sickle hemoglobinopathies has been introduced to identify individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD) that has, by default, identified individuals with sickle cell trait (SCT). Topics include SCT can increase the risk for complications such as exertion-related injury, venous thromboembolism, renal medullary carcinoma, and chronic kidney disease; and patients with SCT instead of isolating studies to one race or ethnicity.
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