[Homozygotic drépanocytemia (author's transl)]

A clinical description according to four age groups: before 5 with hand and foot syndrome, hemolytic chronic and sometimes acute anemia; after 5 with frequent surgical-like abdominal syndromes and development troubles; after puberty with patent dystrophia and anemia; adult age group of rare surviving patients. The drepanocytic condition is aggravated by various infections and reversly facilitate lung infections and osteitis caused by staphylococci or salmonellae. Malaria trophozoïte is suspected of inducing sickling which gives way to a rapid phagocytosis of both sickle cell and Plasmodium.