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Sickle cell anemia Clinical vignettes

Sickle cell anemia Clinical vignettes. Peter Newburger, MD Pediatric hematology/oncology. Sickle cell anemia. From http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/gene/mol_gen.htm. Sickle Cell Epidemiology. b S : Single a.a. substitution Glutamic acid  Valine

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Sickle cell anemia Clinical vignettes

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  1. Sickle cell anemiaClinical vignettes Peter Newburger, MD Pediatric hematology/oncology

  2. Sickle cell anemia From http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/gene/mol_gen.htm

  3. Sickle Cell Epidemiology bS : Single a.a. substitution Glutamic acid Valine Most common single gene disorder in African Americans 1/375 affected (homozygous) 1/12 are heterozygous carriers (~8%) Also affects other ethnicities: India, Middle East, Hispanic

  4. SICKLE CELL SYNDROMES • Molecular pathology postulated by Pauling in the late 1940s • Mutation known for 50 years • Unfinished tasks • Explaining the clinical disorder based on the molecular defect • Rational and targeted treatments – still few despite detailed knowledge of the molecular defect

  5. Molecular Pathophysiology Intracellular [Hb] ~30 - 35 g/dL Deoxygenation allows interaction of bS subunits via abnormal hydrophobic regions (valines) Non-covalent bond with other bS in the RBC Formation of 14 stranded helical fiber

  6. Delay time ≈ k / C15 The time that elapses between the deoxygenation of hemoglobin S and the formation of polymer is inversely proportional to the intracellular concentration (C) of deoxyhemoglobin, raised to the 15th power

  7. Polymerization phase is sensitive to: • O2 concentration • Hgb concentration • pH • Ionic strength • (At salt concentrations spanning the physiologic range, solubility increases with ionic strength, but decreases markedly at high ionic strength.) Bunn HF. NEJM 1997 337 (11)

  8. Cellular Pathophysiology of Sickle Cell syndromes Polymerization leads to: Distortion of Cell shape Damage to RBC Membrane Abnormal permeability Irreversible sickling Impairment of RBC flow = Infarction Decreased red cell number = Anemia

  9. Anemia • Most common feature of sickle cell disease • Often ignored as pathologic • Moderate to severe in almost all patients • Degree of anemia reflects clinical severity • Episodic acute anemia

  10. Sickle complications • Vaso-occlusive crisis • Cerebrovascular disease • Splenic sequestration • Sepsis due to functional asplenia • Acute chest syndrome

  11. Patient vignettes

  12. 18 month old girl presents to the ER crying inconsolably, with fever and swollen, tender hands.

  13. A 3 year old boy presents to the ER with a 12-hour history of fever to 38°C. He is slightly irritable but looks well. Despite IV antiobiotics, his fever continues to rise, his blood pressure falls, and his extremities become cold, with purple discoloration.

  14. Functional asplenia Functional Asplenia

  15. Sepsis Prevention:the most effective drug for sickle cell is… Volume 314:1593-1599. June 19, 1986. Number 25 Prophylaxis with oral penicillin in children with sickle cell anemia. A randomized trial MH Gaston, JI Verter, G Woods, C Pegelow, J Kelleher, G Presbury, H Zarkowsky, E Vichinsky, R Iyer, JS Lobel, and et al. PROPS I Prophylactic Penicillin Study Multicenter randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial “Prophylactic therapy with oral penicillin by four months of age decreases the morbidity and mortality associated with pneumococcal septicemia.”

  16. Vaccination: Important for adult sickle cell and all splenectomized patients!! “Catch-up” vaccination if Prevnar series not complete

  17. A fourteen year old girl with sickle cell disease comes to clinic because her left side is weak. She is immediately transferred to the ICU for exchange transfusion.

  18. CT scan of stoke

  19. Cerebral blood vessels

  20. Sickle Cell Disease: Cross Section of Internal Carotid Artery Normal Intimal hyperplasia

  21. Age at 1st stoke in sickle syndromes

  22. Stroke Prevention Most clinical strokes occur in children with increased cerebral blood vessel flow velocities Flow measured by transcranial Doppler ultrasound STOP Trial - red cell transfusions reduce the risk of stroke in children with TCD > 200 cm/sec

  23. Transcranial Doppler U/S

  24. Long term treatment of sickle cell disease • Hydroxyurea • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation • Gene therapy

  25. Hydroxyurea Hydroxyurea decreases crises in patients with severe sickle cell disease. In 299 adults with severe sickle cell anemia: • Hydroxyurea provided ~50% decrease in: • frequency of hospitalization • incidence of pain, acute chest syndrome, and blood transfusions • In good responders: • hemolysis and leukocyte counts fell • hemoglobin concentrations increased • Hb F increased from 5 % to 9% overall • Hb F increased to 18 % in top quartile of responders N Engl J Med 1995;332:1317-22

  26. Stem Cell Transplantation • Stroke risk • Acute chest syndrome risk • Inexorable accrual of • chronic end organ damage (including CHF, pulmonary hypertension, iron overload) • Transplant-related mortality • Infertility • Secondary malignancy • Graft vs. host disease Complications of sickle cell Complications of transplantation

  27. Gene therapy

  28. Ely and Rainer NEJM 1997;336:1364

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