Sickle cell disease is a hereditary, autosomal recessive pathology caused by the replacement of adenine by thymin in position 6 of the beta globin gene, producing anomalous hemoglobin (hemoglobin S- HbS). It is characterized by a chronic inflammatory state with hemolytic anemia and vaso-occlusive phenomena and occurs when the HbS gene is in homozygosis (SS) or heterozygosis, in association with other variant hemoglobins (SD, SC, SE) or thalassemia (). Sickle cell disease is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) […]