Understanding Sickle Cell Disease /
Until recently not at all well understood, sickle cell disease afflicts a very specific portion of the population, namely persons of African descent and, to a lesser degree, those from the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean area (some in the affected groups carry the disease without suffering...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
1995.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sickle cell disease and how it is inherited
- Who has sickle cell disease and why?
- Inside the red blood cell
- Possible effects of sickle cell disease
- How to care for people with sickle cell disease
- Planning a family
- Searching for a cure.