Medical Student Research Forum Posters

Pregnancy exacerbates sickle cell pathophysiology via: Increased metabolic and oxygen demands, State of hypercoagulability, Cardiopulmonary stress. Women with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) have increased prevalence of peripartum complications like: Preeclampsia, Postpartum hemorrhage, Venous thromboembolism (VTE). Data on SCD and pregnancy outcomes are largely from single center studies with limited sample sizes. Aim to add to this limited body of literature by including SCD pregnancy data over 3 decades from the diverse state of California