Sickle cell anaemia [in Nigerian children].

Date:
1956
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Explains the medical genetics and portrays the clinical manifestationsof sickle cell anaemia as seen in Yoruba children of the village of Ilobe, Western Nigeria, where in the mid-1950s about 1 child in 64 was born with sickle cell anaemia. Signs and symptoms shown include marked enlargement of the heart and liver; slight cranial and facial deformities; deformed hip joints; ossification of the lower legs; congestion of the lungs; deterioration of the spleen; infarction of the legs, and chronic haemolytic anaemia. Also frankly discusses the very modest results of treatment with iron and liver extracts and the ultimately fatal outcome of the disease.

Publication/Creation

Nigeria : Federal Information Service, 1956.

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1 videocassette (VHS) (15 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
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2 DVDs (15 min. each) : sound, black and white

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Film Unit of the Federal Information Service, Nigeria, with the West African Council for Medical Research

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Wellcome Trust

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