The CADRE study is a multinational observational cohort of patients with sickle-cell disease (SCD) in five west and central sub-Saharan African countries. The aim of this project is to describe the incidence and assess the predictive factors of SCD-related micro- and macro-vascular complications in sub-Saharan Africa.
| Brigitte Ranque, MD PhD | |
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| Louise Boyer-Chatenet, MS | |
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age: five-year-old or more
signature of informed consent Patients : major sickle cell syndrome confirmed by hemoglobin phenotyping: SS, SC, SBeta+ or Sbeta0 Controls : healthy parents or siblings of the patients, hospital staff or their children, matched on age+/- 3 years and country (1 control for 4 patients)
unstable clinical status such as:
vaso-occlusive crisis in the previous 15 days
fever or infectious disease in the previous 15 days
transfusion in the previous 2 months