Transcranial doppler and brain MRI in children with sickle cell disease and high hemoglobin F levels

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-28

  Asbeutah, Akram ^a   Gupta, Renu ^a   Al Saeid, Osama ^a   Ashebu, Sam ^b   Al Sharida, Sundus ^b   Mullah Ali, Ali ^b   Mustafa, Nada Yousef ^a   Adekile, Adekunle ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b MUBARAK AL KABEER HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Kuwait arabs; Magnetic resonance imaging; Sickle cell disease; Silent brain infarcts; Stroke; Transcranial doppler

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN F;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAIN INFARCTION; CATION EXCHANGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KUWAITI; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; FEMALE; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84891724712     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.24758     Document Type: Article

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