Clinical Profile of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Sudanese Children

Abstract

Background: Although everyone with sickle cell anaemia shares a specific, invariant genotypic mutation, the clinical variability in the pattern and severity of disease manifestations is astounding. Objective:- To determine the clinical profile of sickle cell anaemia among Sudanese children. Patient and methods:- This was a cross-sectional hospital-based study of 100Sudanese children with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) age 5-15 years .It was conducted at the main tertiary children hospital in Sudan, between April-Augst2010 .The data was collected using a questionnaire that included medical history and clinical examination. Haemoglobin electrophoresis result was obtained from patients records.