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(EXP-01) - Exhibit Hall ePosters - Screen 02

Chronic Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease: Past, Present, and Future

Thursday, November 13, 2025
5:49 PM - 5:57 PM CT
Location: Griffin Hall - Screen 02
Introduction:

Sickle cell disease is a lifelong condition marked by intense and often unpredictable episodes of pain. SCD comprises a set of inherited hemoglobinopathies resulting in characteristic sickling of RBCs, owing to the term “vaso-occlusive crisis”. Pain results when sickled RBCs cause microvascular obstruction, ischemia and tissue damage within various organ systems.1 Over time, acute pain crises lead to chronicity as a result of nociceptive pain from VOC, neuropathic pain from central sensitization and chronic inflammation.

    Submitting Author(s)

  • MR

    Melanie Russell-Gillette, MD

    Pain Medicine Fellow
    University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Ohio, United States

    • Co-Author(s)

  • NK

    Naa Dromo Korley, n/a

    Medical Student
    University of Cincinnati Medical Center, United States

  • LD

    Laura DeVita, MD

    Pain Medicine Fellowship Assistant Program Director
    University of Cincinnati Medical Center, United States