Hope and Destiny
For anyone who has or sickle cell disease or is concerned about passing the disease along to their potential children, this informative and compassionate guide provides the facts patients, loved ones, and caregivers need to know in order to reduce symptoms, relieve pain, make informed decisions, and improve understanding of the cause and nature of the disease.
The Patient and Parent’s Guide to Sickle Cell Disease and Sickle Cell Trait
Allan Platt, PA-C, James Eckman, MD, and Lewis Hsu, MD, PhD
For the 80,000 Americans with sickle cell disease and the 3.5 million with sickle cell trait, HOPE AND DESTINY provides well-written and in-depth material on the subject.
HOPE AND DESTINY tackles the subject of sickle cell disease authoritatively, yet compassionately.
It describes the different types of sickle cell disease, their symptoms, and the most up-to-date treatments. In this third edition, the authors offer even more to help patients and their loved ones.
HOPE AND DESTINY offers help on how to:
• find the right healthcare team;
• manage the psychosocial aspects of living with a chronic disease;
• cope with pain and sickle cell “crises”; and
• use faith and prayer in living successfully with the disease.
In this revision, the authors offer new research findings and more information to help patients and their loved ones. New and expanded chapters include:
• anti-sickling therapy with hydroxyurea;
• blood transfusions for complication prevention;
• bone marrow transplants as cures and new hope for other options;
• gene therapy;
• nutrition—foods and supplements that help prevent sickle cell complications; and
• pregnancy and issues surrounding reproduction, prenatal diagnosis, and cord blood banking.
With sections on medications, clinical trials, and an extensive list of resources, HOPE AND DESTINY is the definitive guide for those with sickle cell disease and the people who love them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alan F. Platt Jr., P.A.-C., M.M.Sc., is on the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine and was a Physician Assistant at the Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Grady Health System, in Atlanta for more than twenty years. He is the co-author of Overcoming Pain (Hilton Publishing, 2005). James Eckman is a Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute. Lewis Hsu is Director of the Pediatric Sickle Cell Program at Children’s National Medical Center.
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Paperback; 6 X 9; 276 pages
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