Research Article
Pregnancy in Sickle Cell Disease Is a Very High-Risk Situation: An Observational Study
Table 1
Characteristics of the deliveries according to the patients’ sickle cell genotype.
| | HbSS | HbS/beta | HbSC |
| Number of deliveries | 27 | 5 | 30 | Mean age (years) | 28.2 (17–41) | 26.4 (21–31) | 24.5 (17–40) | Previous HU use, (%) | 8 (30) | 0 | 1 () | Blood transfusion, (%) | 19 (70) | 0 | 0 | Sickle cell complications, (%) | 16 (59) | 0 | 10 (33) | Obstetric complications, (%) | 11 (41) | 4 (80) | 17 (57) |
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