The question
Sickle cell disease is a group of disorders that causes red blood cells to become misshapen and break down. Treatments include blood transfusions, which can be executed in two different manners. On the one hand, we have ‘automated red blood cell exchange’, a treatment that exchanges unhealthy blood with healthy blood. On the other hand, there’s the option of ‘top-up transfusion’, a procedure of adding a donor’s blood.
Our client, a global expert considering everything blood related, wanted to know which type of blood transfusion not only worked best, but – more importantly – added to the patients’ quality of life.