Patients need palliative care to manage the pain of sickle cell disease

Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects about 100,000 Americans as an inherited genetic disorder with intermittent exacerbations requiring hospitalization. SCD is also a painful and complicated disease with no single physician specialist that can provide pain relief. While SCD pain is similar in severity to cancer pain, patients struggle to find adequate pain relief because theyRead more …Patients need palliative care to manage the pain of sickle cell disease originally appeared inKevinMD.com.

Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ramandeep-kaur" rel="tag" > Ramandeep Kaur, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs