Steroid treatment in children with sickle-cell disease

Haematologica

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 425-426

  Couillard, Sonia ^a   Benkerrou, Malika ^b   Girot, Robert ^c   Brousse, Valentine ^d   Ferster, Alicia ^e   Bader Meunier, Brigitte ^a,b  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^d HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^e HOP UNIV DES ENFANTS REINE FABIOLA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; HYDROXYUREA; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY INFARCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PAIN; SEPTICEMIA; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STROKE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG SCREENING; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FOLLOW UP; INFANT; INFARCTION; INFECTION; KIDNEY; LETTER; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ARTHRITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DRUG EVALUATION; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROXYUREA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; INFARCTION; INFECTION; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PAIN; PREDNISONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 34247606046     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.10800     Document Type: Article

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