Journal of Hematology & Thromboembolic Diseases
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Abstract

Supplementation of Vitamin D in Patients with Sickle Cell Bone Disease: A Dbate or a Combate?

Farid Menaa

After its discovery as a genetically inherited hemoglobinopathy one hundred years ago, finding a widely available cure for sickle cell anemia (SCA, HbSS) still remains a challenge and the disease requires multi-disciplinary theranostic approaches (Menaa et al., 2013; Menaa, 2014). Indeed, more effort and resources to promptly find alternative therapeutics and/or adjuvants (e.g. nutraceutics) to HU