Clinical Trials

Objective:

to gain insight in the pathogenesis, to identify biomarkers to recognize patients at risk for proliferative SCR and to investigate its associations with clinical and laboratory characteristics.

Endpoints:

The investigators will determine the difference in the above named parameters between patients with and without PSCR

Study design:

In a hybrid type I effectiveness-implementation trial, our three-center research teams aim to examine whether empowering adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) with patient-facing SCD-specific guidelines through an mHealth application with booklets will decrease acute healthcare utilization and be cost-effective over booklets with the guidelines alone.

In this prospective observational study among sickle cell children aged 7 to 17 years, who face many experience of pain, pain will be assessed during incentive spirometry sessions. Then a relation between, inspiratory volume, pain and the length of hospital stay will be identified .

The study, known as the Peer suppoRt for adolescents and Emerging adults with Sickle cell pain: promoting ENgagement in Cognitive behavioral thErapy (PRESENCE), aims to determine the effectiveness of digital CBT in reducing pain, opioid use, and healthcare utilization among AYAs with SCD. It also seeks to understand the role of personalized peer support in enhancing engagement and outcomes of digital CBT interventions.

BACKGROUND:

Adaptation of a fatigue management program combining the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy and energy conservation strategies (FACETS program) for a population of adult patients with sickle cell disease (Drépa-FACETS program).

Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at risk for central nervous system (CNS) complications, which may affect academic achievement. This study will evaluate an educational support program for parents that aims to improve academic achievement in children with SCD.

'Sickle-shaped' anemia was first clinically described in the US in 1910, and the mutated heritable sickle hemoglobin molecule was identified in 1949. The pathophysiology of SCD is a consequence of abnormal polymerization of sickle hemoglobin (HbS) and its effects on red cell membrane properties, shape, and density, and subsequent critical changes in inflammatory cell and endothelial cell function. Our goal is to understand the impact of CMA abnormalities in SCD, by interrogating a number of recognized interactions in a range of clinical phenotypes.

The study consists in collecting umbilical cord blood cells from newborns at risk of sickle cell disease, to perform laboratory experiments aiming to characterize the cells with HbS/HbS mutation, to develop methods to prepare, to gene-modify and to preserve these cells.

The purpose of this study is to test the effects of a laboratory-based hypnosis session compared to an attention control condition on peripheral blood flow, autonomic stress responses, and acute pain responses in adolescents (ages 12-21) with sickle cell disease, and examine how perceived disease-related stigma may affect these responses.