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- who: August and collaborators from the University of Verona, Italy have published the paper: The protective effect of the spleen in sickle cell patients. A comparative study between patients with asplenia/ hyposplenism and hypersplenism, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: The authors compared blood parameters and RBC properties of SCD patients and compared the results between SCD patients with asplenia, to patients with splenomegaly/hypersplenism. The authors show a positive correlation between these two parameters (Spearman, r=0.8457) . The authors observed normal electrolyte values in the SCD patients, however, the serum potassium and calcium were . . .
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