Table 2.

Literature Review: Splenic syndrome in Sickle cell trait at high altitude

Year	Authors	Patients	Remarks
1985	Lane and Githens	29	Literature review with 6
			new patients
1982	Callis et al	1	White boy
1984	Nussbaum and Rice	1
1985	Goldberg et al	2	Father and son
1988	Shalev et al	1	White Jewish family
1989	Kopp et al	2
1990	Sugarman et al	1	With pulmonary embolism
1999	Franklin et al	4	First female patient
			reported
1999	Tiernan et al	2	White men
2005	Sheikha	4	One each from Yemen,
			Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, and
			India
2006	Present study	8	First report from India

Modified from Sheikha [3]