Clinical profile of sickle cell disease in Yemeni children

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 253-259

  Al Saqladi, Abdul Wahab ^a,b   Delpisheh, Ali ^b,d   Bin Gadeem, Hassan ^f   Brabin, Bernard J ^b,c,e  

^a Aden University   (Yemen)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d ILAM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENURESIS; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HAND FOOT SYNDROME; HEMATURIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LEG ULCER; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; ONSET AGE; PRIAPISM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SAUDI ARABIA; SCREENING TEST; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL CRISIS; SPLENOMEGALY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; YEMEN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CHEST PAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINGERS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOES; YEMEN;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; YEMEN;

EID: 36448982875     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532807X245634     Document Type: Article

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