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My wife and i are both carriers of the sickle-cell disease, should we take the risk of having kids or not?
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Get counseling: The course of sickle cell anemia is variable; some do fairly well. There is a new medication called Hydroxyurea that lessens many problems, and there is excitment about gene therapy as a potential cure, it is possible by chorionic villous sampling (cvs) to detyermine by 8-10 week whether the fetus is affected; if so a mother can decide whether or not to continue the pregnancy.
Answered 6/25/2014
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