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. 1968 Nov;44(517):836-43.
doi: 10.1136/pgmj.44.517.836.

Sickle-cell disease in pregnant immigrants

A E Buckle

Sickle-cell disease in pregnant immigrants

A E Buckle. Postgrad Med J. 1968 Nov.

Abstract

Thirteen pregnancies in nine patients with sickle-cell disease, sickle-cell/haemoglobin C disease and sickle-cell/thalassaemia are reported. There was one maternal death and one stillbirth. Crises occurred in three of the four patients with sickle-cell disease but in only one of the three patients with sickle-cell/haemoglobin C disease.

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