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The first report of sickle cell anemia (SCA) in the medical literature described a dental student from Grenada, Walter Clement Noel. It was by Herrick and Irons in 1910 and introduced the word sickle in the title of the case…
Medical textbooks usually include paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) among the hemolytic anemias (as is the case herein). Doing so is not wrong because hemolysis is a defining feature of the disease. However, placing too much emphasis on the hemolytic component…