Post-transfusion hypertension, convulsion and intracranial haemorrhage in β-thalassemia major

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 473-475

  Masood, Syed Asif ^a   Zaidi, Anita ^b  

^a Department of Paediatrics Hiawatha Paediatrics   (United States)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Convulsion; Haemorrhage; Hypertension; Intracranial; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROIMAGING; PAKISTAN; POSTTRANSFUSION HYPERTENSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESUSCITATION; THALASSEMIA MAJOR;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN DEATH; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84864519988     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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