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JBMS-Journal of the Bahrain Medical Society. 1995; 7 (2): 118-120
in English
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| ID: emr-37531
ABSTRACT
Transfusion associated Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome [AIDS] has recently been reported from Saudi Arabia. AIDS has been reported in a few sickle cell patients, most of whom have been heavily transfused. Patients with AIDS and AIDS related complex are usually neutropenic. This report describes a Saudi patient with sickle cell anaemia and transfusion acquired HIV disease who demonstrated a marked leukemoid reaction