Abstract:
The present study is realized at the central laboratory of the Public Hospital of Ghardaïa,
to define the biological methods for the diagnosis of sickle cell anemia (hemoglobin S), in
particular hemoglobin electrophoresis.
The study was on blood samples of suspected patients or in the case of family survey, 46
patients studied, whose age ranged from less than one year to 67 years, for a period of 3 months.
In this period, a new case of sickle-cell anemia was founded, while in the family survey
there is 8 cases of homozygous sickle-cell anemia, and 11 heterozygous sickle cell disease. The
remaining 26 cases varied between patients without any pathology of hemoglobin and other
hemoglobinopathy patients.
