A 21-year-old patient is having a sickle cell crisis for the first time in many years.He asks the nurse why the sickling causes such pain.The nurse should explain that the pain of sickling is caused by which of the following?
A) Spasms of the blood cells as they change shape
B) Deposition of sickled red cells in the bone marrow
C) Tissue hypoxia caused by small blood vessel occlusion
D) Bacterial or viral infections of organs that caused the sickling
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