Abstract:
A descriptive cross-sectional hospital based study was under taken at
hospitals of Khartoum state between August – December, 2009. Among
children with sickle cell disease. A hundred child aged between 1-14 years
were consecutively recruited to investigate iron status. Sickling test,
hemoglobin electrophoresis, CBC, Serum Ferritin and serum iron has been
done. The study revealed that the mean serum is found to be 86.58μg/dl, and
the mean Serum Ferritin was found to be 37.05μg/l. The result showed that
2% of patient with low serum iron and 98% were within normal range.
