Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited hemoglobin-related blood disorders. It is caused by an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells.
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Condition Class Causative Agent First DescribedThe same section names an 1846 autopsy report of a runaway slave with an absent spleen as a possible earlier "first modern report"; 1910 is recorded here as the article's own credited first description of the sickle-shaped cells the condition is named for. Classification
Body SystemLymphatic or Immune System 1 ICD-10 ChapterXVII: Congenital Malformations, Deformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities 2 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route Causative Agent
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1. Sickle Cell Disease (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of inherited hemoglobin-related blood disorders.
- Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of inherited hemoglobin-related blood disorders.
Wikipedia: Sickle Cell Disease, History section
The abnormal characteristics of the red blood cells, which later lent their name to the condition, were first described by Ernest E. Irons (1877-1959), intern to Chicago cardiologist and professor of medicine James B. Herrick (1861-1954), in 1910.
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Haematology, medical genetics
Lead section, transmission-route statement
Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of inherited hemoglobin-related blood disorders.
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: ICD-10
WikipediaList of chapters, Chapter XVIIQuote, List of chapters, Chapter XVII
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
3. Wikipedia: Non-communicable disease
WikipediaInherited/genetic diseases sectionQuote, Inherited/genetic diseases section
Genetic disorders are caused by errors in genetic information that produce diseases in the affected people.
Wikidata: Sickle Cell Disease
Wikidata Q185034, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Essays About This Entity (1 essay)
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sickle cell disease, one of the hereditary disorders the specialty diagnoses and manages
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