Clinical Case 3 - Sickle cell anemia

Patient demography: 18 years, female
Representative cells: Sickle shaped red blood cells
Diagnostic: Sickle Cell Anemia
Other information: Sickle cell anemia is an inherited genetic disease, that affects the structure of hemoglobin and which develops only in homozygosis. Patient using Hydroxyurea*. Reticulocyte result increased with 20.28%. In typical cases of Hydroxyurea using sickle cell anemia patients, MCV is elevated and MCHC is decreased.
Analyzer: Yumizen H2500/H1500
Case provided by: Helen Silva, Scientific Advisor, HORIBA Brasil