Sickle cell disease and transcranial doppler imaging: Inter-hemispheric differences in blood flow doppler parameters

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-86

  Krejza, Jaroslaw ^a,b   Chen, Rong ^a   Romanowicz, Grzegorz ^a,b   Kwiatkowski, Janet L ^c   Ichord, Rebecca ^c   Arkuszewski, Michal ^a,d   Zimmerman, Robert ^c   Ohene Frempong, Kwaku ^c   Desiderio, Lisa ^a   Melhem, Elias R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Sickle cell disease; Sonography; Stroke; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHILD; COLOR CODED DUPLEX ULTRASONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC DIFFERENCE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STROKE;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 79451469770     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.591818     Document Type: Article

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