Category: Sickle Cell News for February 2020

American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: transfusion support.

BACKGROUND: Red cell transfusions remain a mainstay of therapy for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), but pose significant clinical challenges. Guidance for specific indications and administration of transfusion, as well as screening, prevention, and management of alloimmunization, delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions (DHTRs), and iron overload may improve outcomes. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to develop …

Guide to Sickle Cell and Employment

“A team at De Montfort University (Professor Simon Dyson and Dr Maria Berghs) in the UK has recently completed a project looking at sickle cell, work and employment. The project has produced a Guide to Sickle Cell and Employment and produced a web-site with some further resources at http://sicklecellwork.dmu.ac.uk. …