ICD-11 classes
03 Diseases of the blood or blood-forming organs
Anaemias or other erythrocyte disorders
3A51 — Sickle cell disorders or other haemoglobinopathies
3A51.3 — Compound heterozygous sickling disorders without crisis
ICD-11 3A51.3 — Compound heterozygous sickling disorders without crisis
A disease caused by genetic inheritance of two heterozygous recessive alleles of the haemoglobin gene leading to abnormal formation of haemoglobin molecule. This disease is characterised by rigid, sickle shaped red blood cells. Confirmation is by identification of mutations through genetic testing.
It includes 2 items.
- Sickle cell Hb-C disease without crisis
- Sickle cell thalassaemia without crisis
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.