Peripheral vascular response to mild indirect cooling in patients with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease and the frequency of painful crisis

Clinical Science

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-120

  Mohan, Junette ^b   Marshall, Janice M ^a   Reid, H L ^b   Thomas, P W ^b   Hambleton, I ^b   Serjeant, G R ^b  

^a Medical School   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Cooling; Forearm vascular resistance; Painful crisis; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN F;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BONE MARROW NECROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; WATER IMMERSION;

EID: 0031972895     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/cs0940111     Document Type: Article

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