The clinical features of sickle cell disease / Graham R. Serjeant.

"This monograph summarizes the observations of a six-year study of S-hemoglobinopathies that was undertaken in Jamaica. The principal aim of this research was the establishment of the true clinical picture of sickle cell anaemias as revealed by the study of a large group of adult patients. A sickle cell clinic was formed in Kingston medical center and five peripheral clinics were established in rural hospitals. The observations of the research team indicate that the symptoms and signs of classical sickle cell anaemia (Hb S) are similar to those observed in other parts of the world, but that the disease is more benign, the jaundice less marked, the crises fewer and less severe, and the expectancy of life longer when compared with the manifestations of sickle cell anaemia in Africa and the United States."--From book jacket.