What a Higher Prevalence of Thalassemias in Cases Without Tonsilectomy in Sickle Cell Diseases

Mehmet Rami Helvaci, Israa Alrawii, Celaletdin Camc, Alper Sevinc, Eulis Khoerun Nisa, Tugce Ersahin, Aynur Atabay, Abdulrazak Abyad and Lesley Pocock
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Mehmet Rami Helvaci: Specialist of Internal Medicine, Turkey
Israa Alrawii: Manager of Writing and Statistics, Turkey
Celaletdin Camc: Specialist of Internal Medicine, Turkey
Alper Sevinc: Specialist of Internal Medicine, Turkey
Eulis Khoerun Nisa: Manager of Writing and Statistics, Turkey
Tugce Ersahin: Assistant of Emergency Medicine, Turkey
Aynur Atabay: Assistant of Emergency Medicine, Turkey
Abdulrazak Abyad: Middle-East Academy for Medicine of Aging, Turkey
Lesley Pocock: Medi-WORLD International, Turkey

Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 2024, vol. 54, issue 4, 46248-46261

Abstract: The study included 334 cases (164 females). There were 27 patients (8.0%) with tonsilectomy and 307 patients without (91.9%). The mean age, female ratio, and smoking were similar in both groups (p>0.05 for all). Although white blood cells and platelets counts of peripheric blood, associated thalassemias, painful crises per year, digital clubbing, leg ulcers, pulmonary hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, rheumatic heart disease, avascular necrosis of bone, cirrhosis, stroke, and mortality were all higher in patients without tonsilectomy, the mean hematocrit value was lower in them, but the differences were nonsignificant probably due to the small sample size of the tonsilectomy group (p>0.05 for all).

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Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2024.54.008596

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