Liver involvement in sickle cell disease.

Emel Gürkan, Yılmaz Ergün, Suzan Zorludemir, Fikri Başlamıslı, Rikkat Koçak

PubMed · 2005 · 23 citations · 0 references

Abstract

Our data suggest that chronic liver injury in patients with sickle cell disease seems to be a multifactorial phenomenon depending mostly on overlapping factors such as iron overload and viral damage rather than primary disease itself.