Splenectomy versus conservative management for acute sequestration crises in people with sickle cell disease

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Owusu Ofori, Shirley ^a   Hirst, Ceri ^b  

^a KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE SPLENIC SEQUESTRATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ERYTHROCYTE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION RISK; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEPTICEMIA; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; COMPLICATION; SPLENIC DISEASES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 84891680012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003425.pub2     Document Type: Review

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