Sports medicine pearls and pitfalls - Sickle cell trait and athletes: Three clinical concerns

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 134-135

  Eichner, E Randy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; IRON; VASOPRESSIN;

ATHLETE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPOXEMIA; REST; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPORTS MEDICINE; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

ALTITUDE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; SPLENIC INFARCTION; SPORTS; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 34250638498     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0016-9     Document Type: Editorial

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