Serpovidnokletochnaya bolezn' predstavlyaet soboy nasledstvennoe zabolevanie, kharakterizuyushchiesya narusheniyami v strukture i sinteze gemoglobina. Eto zabolevanie imeet shirokoe rasprostranenie v mire, i ee problema vklyuchena v programmu izucheniya VOZ. Monograficheskoe issledovanie posvyashcheno dannoy bolezni, shiroko rasprostranennoy v ryade respublik byvshego Sovetskogo Soyuza - Azerbaydzhane, Dagestane, Sredne-aziatskom regione. Na osnovanii bol'shogo opyta avtorov osveshchayutsya osnovnye voprosy proiskhozhdeniya, rasprostraneniya, kliniki, diagnostiki, lecheniya i profilaktiki bolezni.