Abdominal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a vital, rapid, and noninvasive diagnostic tool used by hospitalists to detect ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Every day, billions of red blood cells pass through the spleen, an organ that is responsible for filtering out old or damaged blood cells. This task is made more difficult when the ...

Healthy human red blood cells (RBCs) gradually degrade over their lifespan of ~120 days. However, sickle cells - RBCs from sickle cell disease (SCD) patients - degrade much faster within their ...

ALTHOUGH sickle-cell disease has been associated with vascular thrombosis and tissue infarction 1 sickle states have only recently been associated with similar phenomena. Splenic infarctions, 2–5 ...

The purpose of this paper is to report 2 additional cases of this syndrome and to show that in these cases conservative medical management was entirely satisfactory. Case l.§ A 22-year-old Negro ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many children with sickle cell anemia do not receive guideline-concordant preventive care to reduce their risks ...

Would you know what to do if someone was having a sickle cell crisis? Most people wouldn’t and that alone speaks volumes. Despite there being widespread guidance on how to help someone going through a ...

Researchers have designed a microfluidic device, or 'spleen-on-a-chip,' that can model how the spleen's filters become clogged by sickled red blood cells, leading to a life-threatening condition known ...