High risk of recurrent stroke after discontinuance of five to twelve years of transfusion therapy in patients with sickle cell disease

The Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 377-382

  Wang, Winfred C ^a,b   Kovnar, Edward H ^a,b   Tonkin, Ina L ^a,b   Mulhern, Raymond K ^a,b   Langston, James W ^a,b   Day, Sara W ^a,b   Schell, Michael J ^a,b   Wilimas, Judith A ^a,b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STROKE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0026034335     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3476(05)82150-X     Document Type: Article

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