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Filter by:Sickle cell disease is very common in Nigeria. Early diagnosis is important to prevent or reduce serious complications from the disease and to enable children stay healthy. To this end, the investigators would like to test a new, simple and quick device called the HemeChip to determine if it can detect whether or not someone has sickle cell disease. The investigators will compare the results obtained with the HemeChip with a standard method of diagnosing sickle cell disease known as Isoelectric focusing (IEF) or High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC).If the investigators show that the new device can differentiate between children who have sickle cell disease and those who don't as successfully as the IEF or HPLC, they estimate a sharp increase in the use of this device in many countries especially in Africa due to its lower cost
This will be a multistate, multicenter clinical study to determine the efficacy and safety of medical cannabis for a wide variety of chronic medical conditions.
The intent of this open-label, multicenter expanded access program (EAP) is to provide early access to voxelotor prior to market authorization
The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a peer support coaching intervention to improve activated chronic illness self-management versus an attention control group in 225 adolescents and young adults with childhood onset chronic conditions.
Background: Blood disorders like sickle cell disease and malaria affect many people around the world. Researchers want to learn more about blood disorders. To do this, they need to collect biological samples from people with blood disorders. They also need to collect samples from healthy people. Objective: To collect samples to use for research on blood disorders. Eligibility: People ages 18-70 who have blood disorders. Healthy volunteers without blood disorders are also needed. Design: Participants will be screened with a medical history, physical exam, and blood and urine tests. Participants will give one or more samples. They will give them over 5 years. They can choose not to give any of the samples: Saliva: Participants will spit into a tube. They may also have the inside of their mouth swabbed. Urine: Participants will urinate into a cup. Blood: Blood will be taken through a needle in the participant s arm. Fat samples: An area on the participant s belly or buttock will be numbed. A small cut will be made into the skin and a small piece of fat removed. Mucus and cells from the lungs: The participant will be sedated. A flexible tube will be inserted through the nose or mouth into the lung airways. These participants will also have a physical exam, chest x-ray, and heart tests after the procedure. ...
The purpose of this research study is to compare two different ways to give opioid pain medicine to treat sickle cell disease pain that is bad enough to go to the emergency department for treatment. One way uses your weight to decide how much pain medicine to give you while in the emergency department. This is called weight based treatment. The other way uses how much pain medicine you take at home and how much medicine you needed during past emergency department visits to decide how much medicine to give you. This is called patient specific treatment.
Many patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) may develop Acute Chest Syndrome (ACS). ACS is usually caused by a Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) which may be caused by either a bacterium or a virus. Antibiotics are usually used for 7 to 10 days with no microbiological workup. The hypothesis of the study is that the identification of the microorganisms might lead to a reduction of antibiotics exposure and a better care of the patients. We speculate that an early pathogen-directed strategy (respiratory broad panel multiplex PCR and early antibiotics interruption based on the PCT values decrease) might reduce the antibiotics exposure in SCD patients with ACS who are hospitalized and for whom an antibiotic treatment is indicated, as compared with usual care
As part of routine care for SCD, some people are found to have low oxygen levels (≤ 88%) while sleeping, at rest, or with exercise. Testing is done with a small portable device positioned on the finger that measures oxygen levels during sleep, at rest, or following exercise. The investigators start oxygen treatment for people with low levels of oxygen. As a part of this study, the investigators will find out if any changes in cell "stickiness" occur with low oxygen levels (at rest, at night, or with exertion) and if cells become "less sticky" with oxygen treatment. Study subjects will be seen before testing and 2 months after testing. In some cases (people with low oxygen levels during testing), study subjects will have been prescribed oxygen, and the investigators will test the effects of that treatment on the stickiness of red cells.
The purpose of this study is to determine if a search strategy of searching for an HLA-matched unrelated donor for allogeneic transplantation if possible then an alternative donor if an HLA-matched unrelated donor is not available versus proceeding directly to an alternative donor transplant will result in better survival for allogeneic transplant recipients within 2 years after study enrollment.
Improvements of health infrastructure, preventive care and clinical treatment have reduced the morbidity and mortality of sickle cell disease (SCD). However, SCD is still an increasing national health problem, with increase longevity the chronic effect of sustained hemolysis and episodic vaso-occlusive events and the recurrent episodes of ischemic reperfusion injury drive the development of progressive end organ complications and cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological and renal systems are most commonly affected. Today there is hope for a cure using hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, at present; the procedure is infrequently performed and very expensive. In this research we will assess the effect of implementation of the automated erythrocytapheresis in the outcome of sickle cell disease in single Egyptian center.