Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is associated with episodes of severe vasocclusive pain beginning in infancy with a subset of patients with SCD transitioning to chronic pain. Response to experimental pain using Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) in these patients suggest altered pain processing. The objectives of this study were to characterize sensitivity to multiple modalities of experimental pain stimuli and to interrogate the relationship of psychological covariates, clinical pain burden and pain-related outcomes to experimental pain sensitivity in children with SCD as compared to healthy individuals of similar age and sex.
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