Prophylactic Red-Cell Transfusions in Pregnant Patients with Sickle Cell Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 319, Issue 22, 1988, Pages 1447-1452

  Koshy, Mabel ^a   Burd, Laurence ^b   Wallace, David ^c   Moawad, Atef ^c   Baron, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIALS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN SC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THALASSEMIA; TWINS;

EID: 0023716354     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198812013192204     Document Type: Article

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