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Filter by:Suboptimal vitamin D status is well reported in sickle cell disease (SCD) patients and associated with a negative impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL). The investigators enrolled 42 SCD patients and 42 healthy controls, subjects within each group received monthly oral vitamin D3 dose according to the baseline status of vitamin D as follows: sufficient: 100,000 IU, insufficient: 150,000 IU, and deficient: 200,000 IU. The investigators assessed safety and efficacy on normalization of vitamin D level, bone mineral density (BMD), hand grip strength (HGS), and HRQL.
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with arthropathy. Arthropathy may require periarticular corticosteroid injection therapy. This observational study examines efficacy, and safety of steroid injections in SCD patients. Data collection includes patient's gender, age, race, smoking history, alcohol intake, analgesic use, pain score, sleep quality, limb joint injections, post-injection analgesia, and post-injection complication. Pain is measured using numeric pain scale. Sleep quality is measured using Likert scale.
This research study is examining multiple doses of voxelotor (a study drug intended for treatment of sickle cell disease) and how it interacts with additional substrates (substrates are drugs or other substances that are metabolized by cytochrome enzymes. The substrates used in this study are FDA approved medications). The study will help to determine the safety and tolerability of the study drugs taken together, as well as the pharmacokinetics (PK) on how your body processes and responds to the combination of the study drug and substrates. Although these drugs are FDA approved, their use in this study is experimental.
Background: Pain and sleep disturbance are the most common problems experienced by adult patients with sickle cell disease anemia. Aim: the aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of designed exercise program on pain, and quality of sleeping in adult patients with sickle cell disease anemia and how the program affects their quality of lives. Subjects and methods: Adults patients with sickle cell diseases aging over 18 years old. Data will be collected in face-to-face interviews. Eligible participants will be equally and randomized into two groups. Group-1: Twenty-five adult patients with SCD will receive a designed exercise program of physical therapy for relief pain and improve sleep quality (experimental group). The designed exercise program will be distributed on everyone. The recommendations will be to train from 30 to 45 minutes, three days per week for 6 weeks in addition to walking daily 30 minutes on the ground surface. Group-2: Twenty-five adult patients with SCD will participate as a control group they will not receive exercise program. Analysis: The collected data will be managed by using t -test and the repeated measures of ANOVA test to compare the significance within groups and between two groups.
This was a retrospective cohort study using secondary data from member sites of the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers (NASCC) with at least five patients who initiated crizanlizumab. Patients who were prescribed crizanlizumab were included in the cohort.
An Open-label Study of GBT021601 in 8 to 10 healthy male or female participants to evaluate the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) of GBT021601.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the incidence of ACS within the DREPADOM system and compare it to expected incidences of ACS (historic cohorts of PRESEV1 and PRESEV2)
Patients with sickle cell disease suffer from acute and chronic pain that diminishes their quality of life. The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of mindfulness meditation, breathing exercises, and gentle yoga therapy as supportive measures for the management of acute vaso-occlusive pain crises in the inpatient setting.
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder associated with acute illness and organ damage. In high resource settings, early screening and treatment greatly improve quality of life. In low resource settings, however, mortality rate for children is high (50-90%). Low-cost and accurate screening techniques are critical to reducing the burden of the disease, especially in remote/rural settings. The most common and severe form of SCD is sickle cell anemia (SCA), caused by the inheritance of genes causing abnormal forms of hemoglobin (called sickle hemoglobin or hemoglobin S) from both parents. The asymptomatic or carrier form of the disease, known as sickle cell trait (SCT), is caused by the inheritance of only one variant gene from one of the parents. In areas such as Nepal, β-thalassemia (another inherited blood disorder) and SCD are both prevalent, and some combinations of these diseases lead to severe symptoms. The purpose of this study is to determine the accuracy of low-cost point-of-care techniques for screening and detecting sickle cell disease, sickle cell trait, and β-thalassaemia, which will subsequently inform on feasible solutions for detecting the disease in rural, remote, or low-resource settings. One of the goals of the study is to evaluate the feasibility of techniques, such as the sickling test with low-cost microscopy and machine learning, HbS solubility test, commercial lateral-flow assays (HemoTypeSC and Sickle SCAN), and the Gazelle Hb variant test, to supplement or replace gold standard tests (HPLC or electrophoresis), which are expensive, require highly trained personnel, and are not easily accessible in remote/rural settings. The investigators hypothesize that: 1. an automated sickling test (standard sickling test enhanced using low-cost microscopy and machine learning) has a higher overall accuracy than conventional screening techniques (solubility and sickling tests) to detect hemoglobin S in blood samples 2. the automated sickling test can additionally classify SCD, SCT and healthy individuals with a sensitivity greater than 90%, based on morphology changes of red blood cells, unlike conventional sickling or solubility tests that do not distinguish between SCD and SCT cases 3. Gazelle diagnostic device can detect β-thalassaemia and SCD/SCT with an overall accuracy greater than 90%, compared with HPLC as the reference test
This was a retrospective descriptive analysis of health care claims data using the IQVIA open source medical and pharmacy claims databases.