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Sickle Cell Disease and the Eye 

Ocular Manifestations of Sickle Cell Disease

 - Hyphema is Dangerous
Sickle Cell Disease ... of Sickle Cell Disease ... is Dangerous in SCD ... sickling - SCD ... #SickleCell #Disease
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Nephropathy
 • Cortical Manifestations
    - Main issue: Hemolysis-associated endothelial
Sickle Cell Disease ... (SCD) Nephropathy ... #SickleCell #Disease ... #SCD #Nephropathy
Hepatobiliary Manifestations of Sickle Cell Disease
Acute sickle cell hepatic crisis:
 • Fever, acute onset RUQ pain,
of Sickle Cell Disease ... with treatment of SCD ... #SickleCell #Disease
Differential Diagnosis for Hemolytic Anemia
Intrinsic Causes:
 • Enzyme deficiencies ex. G6PD, pyruvate kinase 
 • Hemoglobinopathies
SCD, thalassemias ... Causes: • Liver disease
Causes of Bone/Joint Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
Vaso-occlusive pain:
 • Mechanism: ischemic pain
 • Can present
in Sickle Cell Disease ... of patients w SCD ... Pain #SickleCell #Disease
Indications for Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) in Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) to Prevent Sudden Cardiac
Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD ... Ischemic Heart Disease ... Cardiac Death (SCD ... ischemic heart disease
Diets and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Diet affects IBD by 3 mechanisms
1. Microbiome ( ↓ diversity)
2. Mucosal
Inflammatory Bowel Disease ... in Sx, but not disease ... meal • Crohn's Disease ... Carbohydrate Diet (SCD ... Diet derived from SCD
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
Congenital heart disease ... Congenital heart diseases ... acquired heart disease ... history of premature SCD ... Structural heart disease
T-LGL leukemia - T-CeIl Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia
Clinical
 - Persistent (>6mo) lymphocytosis (2-20k) with proven clonality
of autoimmune disease ... morphologic/clinical disease ... are NK cells (sCD3
Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphology
Microcytic RBC: Pyridoxine deficiency, Thalassemia, Iron deficiency anemia, Chronic disease anemia (sometimes),
anemia, Chronic disease ... , Hemoglobin SC ... SD disease, S-beta ... , Hemoglobin SC ... disease Red Cell