Influence of the Clinical Status on Stress Reticulocytes, CD 36 and CD 49d of SSFA₂ Homozygous Sickle Cell Patients Followed in Abidjan

Table 3

Profile of CD 49d⁺ reticulocytes according to their degree of maturity and the clinical status.

CD 49d^+ patients
Parameters	Painful crisis (𝑛=30)	Steady state (𝑛=30)	𝑃
	m ± sd	m ± sd
Total reticulocytes (%)	44.1±17.7	40.9±7.7	0.13
Total reticulocytes (/μL)	134 604 ± 108 223	83 782 ± 54 222	0.06
LFR	9.9±19.6	5.8±2.1	0.91
MFR	26.4±8.5	28.4±6.5	0.8
HFR (%)	63.7±18.1	65.8±7.6	0.19
IRF (%)	90.1±19.6	94.2±2.1	0.65

m ± sd: mean ± standard deviation.
𝑃: Chi-Square test.
LFR: low fluorescence reticulocytes or mature reticulocytes.
MFR: medium fluorescence reticulocytes or semimature reticulocytes.
HFR: high fluorescence reticulocytes or immature reticulocytes.
IRF: index reticulocytes fraction or stress reticulocytes (MFR + HFR).