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Sickle cell disease awareness – 2
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. Red blood cells are normally round and smooth. Those with sickle cell diseases, blood cells are sickle-shaped and can clump. Dr. Keith Hoots at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute says if left untreated, sickle cell disease can lead to organ failure and other serious consequences.
Hoots: The fact that sickle cell disease causes so much individualized pain because of the sickling in muscle and organs means that people with this disease spend lots of time having to get very powerful anti-pain medicine such as morphine to control the pain.
Narrator: Those who live with sickle cell disease can experience severe pain episodes known as crises. For more information, visit nhlbi.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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