Changes in platelet count as a predictive tool in sickle cell acute vaso-occlusive crises: A pediatric study

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 657-661

  Shanley, Leticia A ^a   Ebeling, Myla ^b   Titus, M Olivia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medicine; hematology; sickle cell; vaso occlusive crisis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL; SICKLE CELL CRISIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOOCCLUSSIVE CRISIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79959948262     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922811399347     Document Type: Article

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