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HealthDay 09 November at 04.38 PM

AAO: Research Highlights Vision Issues Seen in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease

For pediatric patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), ophthalmologic complications include nonproliferative retinopathy (NPR) and proliferative retinopathy (PR), which occur in 33 and 6 percent, respectively, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, held from Nov. 3 to 6 in San Francisco.Ba