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Red cell exchange transfusion halts progressive proliferative sickle cell retinopathy in a teenaged patient with hemoglobin SC disease
- Source :
- Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 62:721-723
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2015.
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Abstract
- A male with sickle SC disease presented at age 8 years with proliferative sickle cell retinopathy (PSCR) and bilateral vitreous hemorrhage which spontaneously resolved, then recurred at 13 years of age. Despite conventional therapy with repeated pan-retinal photocoagulation and pars plana vitrectomy, he developed progressive PSCR and recurrent vitreous hemorrhage over the next 30 months. We describe the successful use of chronic red cell exchange transfusion (RCE) to preserve his vision and stabilize the retinopathy.
- Subjects :
- Pars plana
medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
Hemoglobin SC Disease
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Vitrectomy
Hematology
Red cell exchange transfusion
medicine.disease
eye diseases
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Oncology
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Vitreous hemorrhage
medicine
Sickle cell retinopathy
business
Retinopathy
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15455009
- Volume :
- 62
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatric Blood & Cancer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........968cd3f9ed4afb50c2b7c6b8ffc1bec5