Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453674.2011.555373 Sir—We read this article (Zustin and Winter 2009) with great interest and we appreciate the great efforts the authors have put in to p...

Background There is lack of recent data in South Africa describing the burden AVN among SLE patients. Joint replacement remains a challenge with more than 500 days delay some cases hence identification potential clinical associations for development patients an important undertaking prevention, early detection and treatment. Objectives: 1. To determine current prevalence at Tygerberg Hospital. ...

In daily clinical practice, the frequency of painful crises (pain rate) is an important parameter of sickle cell disease severity. We assessed the prevalence of sickle cell disease-related organ damage and complications and their relation to pain rate. Organ damage and history of vaso-occlusive complications were obtained via systematic screening of consecutive patients and by chart review. In ...

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