Optimal haematocrit in subjects with normal haemoglobin genotype (HbAA), sickle cell trait (HbAS), and homozygous sickle cell disease (HbSS)

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 253-260

  Bowers, A S ^a   Pepple, D J ^a   Reid, H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

normal haemoglobin; optimal haematocrit; shear rate; sickle cell disease; sickle cell trait

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A2; HEMOGLOBIN AA; HEMOGLOBIN S; HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMATOCRIT; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

EID: 79959205346     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: 18758622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2011-1387     Document Type: Article

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