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Sickle cell disease (SCD), a hereditary form of chronic hemolytic anemia, is characterized by acute vascular occlusion and chronic complications as pulmonary hypertension (PH), a hallmark of higher mortality. This study aimed to determine peripheral blood expression of superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2), a major mitochondrial antioxidant enzyme in SCD patients on the mRNA level and compared it with SOD2...
Cardiovascular involvement is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with inherited hemoglobinopathies, but it has not been adequately assessed in sickle β-thalassemia. We evaluated 115 sickle β-thalassemia patients, aged 34 ± 14 years, along with 50 healthy controls, by resting echocardiography. Patients with systolic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction or severe pulmonary hypertension...
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