PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | sickle cell anemia |
| Symptom | C0009450|infection |
| Sentences | 15 |
| PubMedID- 22972063 | Authors' conclusions: prophylactic penicillin significantly reduces risk of pneumococcal infection in children with homozygous sickle cell disease, and is associated with minimal adverse reactions. |
| PubMedID- 25375222 | All of the included trials showed a reduced incidence of infection in children with sickle cell disease (ss or sbeta0thal) receiving prophylactic penicillin. |
| PubMedID- 22930515 | This study investigates b19v infection in patients with sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia using different experimental approaches. |
| PubMedID- 26207314 | We aimed to evaluate the incidence and predictors of bacteremia and bacterial infection in children with sickle cell disease presenting with fever to a district hospital and sickle cell center in london. |
| PubMedID- 22325823 | Strongyloides stercoralis infection in a patient with sickle cell disease. |
| PubMedID- 24678395 | There are limited number of studies describing the usefulness of pct in diagnosis of bacterial infection in patients with sickle cell disease (scd) with conflicting results.4,19,21 moreover, these studies have focused mostly scd patients of europe and usa with a different β-globin gene cluster haplotype and the results may not be applicable to indian sca patients with asian-indian haplotype. |
| PubMedID- 21797704 | sickle cell anemia is associated with susceptibility to infection due to hyposplenism and the reduced ability of neutrophils to kill pathogenic organisms. |
| PubMedID- 25544913 | Mycobacterium avium complex infection in a patient with sickle cell disease and severe iron overload. |
| PubMedID- 26369294 | The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and incidence of b19v infection in children with sickle cell disease screened by the newborn screening program of minas gerais, brazil, and followed-up at fundacao hemominas. |
| PubMedID- 21677622 | This case of transverse myelitis is related to varicella zoster infection, with sickle cell anemia, and was successfully treated with high dose iv methylprednisolone, iv acyclovir, and physiotherapy. |
| PubMedID- 24839609 | Hla-g polymorphism may also affect susceptibility to hcv infection in patients with sickle cell disease, because the c allele seems to confer protection against hcv, by a mechanism associated with an increase in hla-g expression . |
| PubMedID- 21808713 | Conflicting data are present in the literature about how rarely osteoarticular infection occurs in patients with sickle cell disease. |
| PubMedID- 21803552 | These results justify the development of hp-b19 prevention and strategies to reduce the incidence of severe and life-threatening complications associated with the infection in patients with sickle cell anemia, particularly in sub-saharan africa where the sickle cell anemia burden is high. |
| PubMedID- 23238191 | Antimicrobial sensitivity pattern of organisms causing urinary tract infection in children with sickle cell anemia in maiduguri, nigeria. |
| PubMedID- 26068416 | Four published case series of influenza infection among patients with sickle cell disease showed that influenza can precipitate acute chest syndrome among individuals with sickle cell disease and that influenza a(ph1n1) may have caused more severe outcomes than seasonal influenza when it was first identified . |
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