Sickle cell anemia

Sickle cell anemias are chronic hemolytic diseases that may induce three types of acute accidents: severe anemia, severe bacterial infections, and ischemic vasoocclusive accidents (VOA) caused by sickle-shaped red blood cells obstructing small blood vessels and capillaries. Many diverse complications can occur.

Sickled erythrocytes

An irreversible distortion of the morphology of an erythrocyte such that the cells are elongated and curved, resembling the blade of a sickle (the hand-held agricultural tool traditionally used to harvest grains).

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PMID (PMCID)
8671872	MALE
	Don't forget sickled cells in the urine when investigating a patient for haematuria.
	Fogazzi GB, Leong SO, Cameron JS. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 1996;11(4):723-5.
	A South African coloured patient with repeated episodes of gross haematuria is described in whom the diagnosis of sickle cell disease was suggested after the finding of sickled erythrocytes in the urine sediment.