Implementation of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography screening and primary stroke prevention in urban and rural sickle cell disease populations

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 219-223

  Hussain, Samiya ^a   Nichols, Fenwick ^a   Bowman, Latanya ^a   Xu, Hongyan ^b   Neunert, Cindy ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic transfusion therapy; Sickle cell disease; Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography; Treatment adherence

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN S;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SCREENING; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL BETA THALASSEMIA; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URBAN POPULATION; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; THALASSEMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HUMANS; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; STROKE; THALASSEMIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84927521781     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25306     Document Type: Article

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