Altered Adhesion Molecule Expression of Leukocytes of SCD Patients in Crisis and Steady State

Nagina Parmar¹, Jamie Hutchison², Gemma Vomiero³, Ashok Kumar⁶, Mohamed Abdelhaleem⁴, Isabelle Gaboury⁵, Melanie Kirby-Allen⁷ and Robert J. Klaassen^5*

¹Department of Blood Transfusion Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

²Department of Critical care, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

³University of Calgary, Alberta, AB, Canada

⁴Division of Haematopathology, Department of Pathology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵Division of Haematology, Department of Paediatrics, Children’s Hospital for Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁶Department of Pathology, CHEO Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁷Division of Haematology, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada