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dc.contributor.authorMugerwa, R.D.
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-02T11:27:43Z
dc.date.available2013-07-02T11:27:43Z
dc.date.issued1974
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10570/1493
dc.descriptionA Dissertation Presented for the degree of Masters of Medicine.en_US
dc.description.abstractSUMMARY Fifty homozygous sicklers and ten heterozygous sick cell patients selected from the sickle cell clinic cardiac clinic and inpatients on the medical wards of Mulago Hospital from the basis of this dissertation. It starts with a historical review and pathology of sickle cell disease. Cardiovascular alterations in Anaemia with emphasis on physiological and pathological considerations in sickle disease are then discussed. The findings among the patients studied are described dwelling mainly on presenting symptoms, cardiovascular findings notably cardiomegally, murmurs, abnormal heart sounds, electro-cardio graphic and X-ray abnormalities. A discussion of findings with reference to work on the same subject by other writers is presented. Some of the possibilities haemodynamic alterations in sickle cell disease are outlined and a need to for further elaborate studies in this condition is stressed.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectCardiovascularen_US
dc.subjectSickle Cell Diseaseen_US
dc.subjectHomozygousen_US
dc.subjectHeterozygousen_US
dc.subjectSickle Cell Clinicen_US
dc.subjectPathologyen_US
dc.subjectAnaemiaen_US
dc.subjectPhysiologyen_US
dc.subjectCardiomegaen_US
dc.subjectCardiographyen_US
dc.subjectX-raysen_US
dc.subjectMurmursen_US
dc.subjectHaemodynamicen_US
dc.titleCardiovascular findings in patients with Sickle Cell Diseaseen_US
dc.typeThesis, mastersen_US


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