title: Objective Basis for Chronic Pain in Patients with Adult Sickle Cell Disease.
abstract: Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) affects approximately 100,000 Americans and due to lack of an organized treatment approach, patients with SCD pose a high economic burden on medical services. The patients with SCD have chronic bone damage from bone marrow infraction and vaso-occulsive events. These bone damages lead to chronic pain in patients with SCD. The inadwquate treatment of chronic pain in adult patients with SCD can lead to pseudo-addictive behavior and also affect their psycho-social life. There are certain barriers to adequate pain management in adult patients with SCD, namely, limited knowledge among the clinicians, inadequate assessment, concerns about addiction, and biases against opioid use. Here by presenting radiographs of patients with adult SCD, we would like to provide objective evidence for the pathologic basis of severe chronic pain in adult patients with SCD.
authors: Department of Hematology and Oncology at the Louisiana State Univeristy Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, LA.
authors: Samip
authors: S
authors: Master
authors: Department of Hematology and Oncology at the Louisiana State Univeristy Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, LA.
authors: Abhishek
authors: A
authors: Patel
authors: Department of Hematology and Oncology at the Louisiana State Univeristy Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, LA.
authors: Glenn
authors: G
authors: Mills
authors: Department of Hematology and Oncology at the Louisiana State Univeristy Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, LA.
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Mansour
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000293:injuries; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D019468:Disease Management; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male