When I first started my career in emergency medicine 28 years ago, the main treatments for this disease were intravenous fluids, oxygen and a powerful narcotic used to manage the pain of sickle cell.
Sickle cell is caused by an autosomal recessive mutation on one of the chromosomes we inherit from our parents, meaning that in order for someone to have the condition, they have to inherit this mutated gene from both of their parents.
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