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  A SURVEY OF PATIENTS WITH SICKLE CELL CRISISPRESENTING TO ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTOF SALMAN
Date : 2010-02-16

A SURVEY OF PATIENTS WITH SICKLE CELL CRISIS PRESENTING TO ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF SALMANYIA MEDICAL CENTER, BAHRAIN

SHAIKHA AL-ARRAYED, MBChB,DHCG, PhD.* Aziz Y. HAMZA. MCH, MD.** S. CHANDRA, BSc, MBBS, MD, MRCP.*** HANEEF A. AZEM, MBBS, MS.**** MISBAH REZA, MBBS.***** 

ABSTRACT

احتلت أمراض فقر الدم الوراثية في عام 1990 المركز الثالث بين عشرة أمراض استدعت مراجعة مركز السلمانية الطبي . وقد تمت دراسة وتقويم الأعراض السريرية والمراحل العلاجية ل 200 شخص بحريني مصاب بفقر الدم المنجلي ممن راجعوا قسم الطوارئ بمستشفى السلمانية خلال نوبة انسداد الأوعية الدموية.كما أن عدد الذكور فاق عدد الإناث بنسبة 1 : 2 وإن 60% من هؤلاء ضمن المجموعة العمرية (30-15) عاما وتظاهر معظم (86%ُ) بألم الأطراف يتبعه ألم في البطن وآلام جسمية متعممة. وقد استجاب المرضى للعلاج بالاماهة ومسكنات الألم المخدر أو بالعقاقير المضادة للالتهاب غير السيترويدية وقد غادر (83%) منهم قسم الطوارئ. ويبدو أن المرضى البحرينيين مصابين بنوع متوسط من فقر الدم المنجلي.

In 1990 hereditary anaemia were found to occupy third place among ten leading causes of attendance at SalmaniyaMedical center (SMC)1.two hundred Bahraini sickle cell disease (SCD) Patients who attended Accident and Emergency (A&E) department for vaso-occulusive crisis (VOC) during the period of January to March 1994, were studied to evaluate their clinical presentation and management.Males outnumbered females in ratio of 2:1,60%were in the age group of 15-30 years.Extermities pain was the commonest presenting feature, 86%followed by pain in abdomen and generalised body ache.Most patients responded to treatment with hydration, narcotic analgesic or non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs and were discharged home from A&E 83% It appears that Bahraini Patients suffer from a milder type of SCD.

*Consultant Clinical Geneticist**Chairman***Consultant Physician****Senior Resident*****ResidentAccident and Emergency DepartmentSalmaniya Medical ComplexP.O.Box 12State of Bahrain 
 
 
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