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What a Higher Prevalence of Thalassemias in Cases Without Tonsilectomy in Sickle Cell Diseases

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  • Mehmet Rami Helvaci

    (Specialist of Internal Medicine, Turkey)

  • Israa Alrawii

    (Manager of Writing and Statistics, Turkey)

  • Celaletdin Camc

    (Specialist of Internal Medicine, Turkey)

  • Alper Sevinc

    (Specialist of Internal Medicine, Turkey)

  • Eulis Khoerun Nisa

    (Manager of Writing and Statistics, Turkey)

  • Tugce Ersahin

    (Assistant of Emergency Medicine, Turkey)

  • Aynur Atabay

    (Assistant of Emergency Medicine, Turkey)

  • Abdulrazak Abyad

    (Middle-East Academy for Medicine of Aging, Turkey)

  • Lesley Pocock

    (Medi-WORLD International, Turkey)

Abstract

The study included 334 cases (164 females). There were 27 patients (8.0%) with tonsilectomy and 307 patients without (91.9%). The mean age, female ratio, and smoking were similar in both groups (p>0.05 for all). Although white blood cells and platelets counts of peripheric blood, associated thalassemias, painful crises per year, digital clubbing, leg ulcers, pulmonary hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, rheumatic heart disease, avascular necrosis of bone, cirrhosis, stroke, and mortality were all higher in patients without tonsilectomy, the mean hematocrit value was lower in them, but the differences were nonsignificant probably due to the small sample size of the tonsilectomy group (p>0.05 for all).

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  • Mehmet Rami Helvaci & Israa Alrawii & Celaletdin Camc & Alper Sevinc & Eulis Khoerun Nisa & Tugce Ersahin & Aynur Atabay & Abdulrazak Abyad & Lesley Pocock, 2024. "What a Higher Prevalence of Thalassemias in Cases Without Tonsilectomy in Sickle Cell Diseases," Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, Biomedical Research Network+, LLC, vol. 54(4), pages 46248-46261, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:abf:journl:v:54:y:2024:i:4:p:46248-46261
    DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2024.54.008596
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