How Sickle Cell Anemia Affects the Body

1,411 views · Published 8 November 2014 · 4:22 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: The Doctors · 2014 · Education

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ER physician Dr. Travis Stork explains that in people with sickle cell disease, the red blood cells become rigid and shaped like sickles, causing them to clump together in small blood vessels, which can slow or block blood flow and oxygen to the rest of the body.

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