The American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) Journal of Clinical Apheresis (JCA) Special
Issue Writing Committee is charged with reviewing, updating, and categorizing indications …

The American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) JCA Special Issue Writing Committee is
charged with reviewing, updating and categorizating indications for therapeutic apheresis …

The number of individuals with the sickle cell trait exceeds 300 million worldwide, making
sickle cell disease one of the most common monogenetic diseases globally. Because of the …

BACKGROUND A prior practice survey revealed variations in the management of patients
with sickle cell disease (SCD) and stressed the need for comprehensive guidelines. Here …

Sickle cell disease is a multisystem disease characterised by chronic haemolytic anaemia,
painful vaso‐occlusive crises and acute and chronic end‐organ damage. It is one of the …

Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) require specific perioperative care, and clinical
practice in this area remains poorly defined. We aimed to conduct a systematic, PRISMA …

OBJECTIVES Sickle-cell patients undergo cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery in our
institution without perioperative exchange transfusion. We sought to determine whether this …

Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hemoglobinopathy that can cause multiorgan
dysfunction. This study assessed the perioperative outcomes of patients undergoing …

Sickle cell disease is a life‐limiting inherited hemoglobinopathy that poses inherent risk for
surgical complications following cardiac operations. In this review, we discuss preoperative …

A 49‐year‐old woman with sickle cell disease presented with one month of exertional
dyspnea, weakness, and fever and was diagnosed with isolated pulmonic valve …