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Perioperative Management of Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia

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Sickle cell anemia (SCA), which is due to homozygous inheritance of the HbS variant, is one of the commonly inherited hemoglobinopathies worldwide.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Dar A lAlafia Medical Company, Qatif, Saudi Arabia

    Ahmed Al-Salem

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Al-Salem, A. (2016). Perioperative Management of Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia. In: Medical and Surgical Complications of Sickle Cell Anemia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24762-5_18

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