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Further studies determine that pulmonary hypertension is common in sickle cell disease and a strong predictor of death. James Herrick notes "peculiar, elongated sickle-shaped erythrocytes" in a patient with anemia. Lemuel Whitley Diggs suggests that pain in sickle cell patients is due to sickle cells clogging up small blood vessels. James V. It was in his department that I worked for seven years and was on the staff of one of the first Centers for Sickle Cell Disease in Neel published his article in the prestigious American journal Science.
As a result of the much wider readership of that journal, Neel usually gets the credit for the discovery although most authors are careful to cite both and many people think that Neel and Beet worked together. As an aside, some years ago, I visited Dr. Neel he has died since , and I remarked that I always tell my classes about his discovery and the article and the dual publication by Beet.
He smiled, got up from his desk and opened a file drawer. Two years later, in , the famous Nobel Prize-winning chemist, Dr. Linus Pauling and his colleague Dr. This led Dr. Today, thousands of such diseases are known but in , SCD was the first.
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