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Sickle Cell Disease

What is sickle cell disease (SCD)?

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. If you have SCD, there is a problem with your hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout the body. With SCD, the hemoglobin forms into stiff rods within the red blood cells. This changes the shape of the red blood cells. The cells are supposed to be disc-shaped, but this changes them into a crescent, or sickle, shape.

The sickle-shaped cells are not flexible and cannot change shape easily. Many of them burst apart as they move through your blood vessels. The sickle cells usually only last 10 to 20 days, instead of the normal 90 to 120 days. Your body may have trouble making enough new cells to replace the ones that you lost. Because of this, you may not have enough red blood cells. This is a condition called anemia, and it can make you feel tired.

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  1. Sickle Cell Disease (National Library of Medicine)  
    What is sickle cell disease (SCD)? Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. If you have SCD, there is a problem with your hemoglobin. Hemoglobin ...
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  2. Sickle cell disease 
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  4. Sickle cell disease 
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  5. What Is Sickle Cell Disease? From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)  
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  7. About Sickle Cell Disease From the National Institutes of Health (National Human Genome Research Institute)  
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  8. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) (National Marrow Donor Program)  
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  9. FDA Approval of Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease: Q&A with NHLBI Director Dr. Gary Gibbons and NHLBI's Division ... From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)  
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  10. Dr. Allison King on Sickle Cell Disease and Learning From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)  
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