Does elevated hemoglobin F modulate the phenotype in Hb SD-Los angeles?

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 135-139

  Adekile, Adekunle ^a,b   Mullah Ali, Ali ^b   Akar, Najwa Ali ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b MUBARAK AL KABEER HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Avascular necrosis; Hb F; Hb SD Los Angeles; Hemoglobin; Sickle cell disease; Vaso occlusive crises

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN F; PENICILLIN G;

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ACUTE SPLENIC SEQUESTRATION; ADOLESCENT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMOGLOBIN SD DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; KUWAIT; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY;

AGE OF ONSET; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HEMOGLOBINS, ABNORMAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 75149175672     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000276998     Document Type: Article

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