The authors report one case of systemic lupus erythematosus revealed by chronic anemia. This was a 29-year-old patient with long-term fever, chronic skin and joint lesions with isolated hypochrome microcytic haemolytic anemia on the hemogram. The diagnosis of SLE was made three years after the onset of symptomatology based on seven of the American Rheumatology Association's (ARA) criteria out of 11, including positive immunological status (antinuclear antibodies and native DNA). This observation shows the interest of evoking SLE, while looking for signs in a
Introduction: Sickle cell disease has an evolution characterized by acute and chronic complications that affect almost all the target organs of the body (bones, eyes, heart, kidneys, brain ...). The purpose of this study was to describe the bone complications of sickle cell disease. Patients and Methods: This was a retrospective study performed in the Hematology-Oncology Department of the Donka Teaching Hospital over a five-year period (5 years) from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2015. Results: The frequency of bone complication of sickle cell disease was 15%. There was a predominance of the female sex with the sex ratio of 0.8. The average age of the patients was 27.5 years with extremes of 10 and 50 years. The main reason
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