Hydroxyurea treatment does not increase blood viscosity and improves red blood cell rheology in sickle cell anemia

Haematologica

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2015, Pages e383-e386

  Lemonne, Nathalie ^a   Charlot, Keyne ^b,c   Waltz, Xavier ^b,c   Ballas, Samir K ^d   Lamarre, Yann ^b,c   Lee, Ketty ^a   Hierso, Régine ^b,c   Connes, Catherine ^b,c   Etienne Julan, Maryse ^a   Romana, Marc ^b,c   Connes, Philippe ^b,c,e,f  

^a CHU de Pointe a Pitre   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

^c Laboratoire d Excellence CORAIL   (France)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Haemorheology; Hydroxyurea; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYUREA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; ANTISICKLING AGENT;

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ADULT; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE DISAGGREGATION THRESHOLD; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN HEMOGLOBIN SATURATION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL CRISIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANTISICKLING AGENTS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; HYDROXYUREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84943257938     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: 15928721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2015.130435     Document Type: Letter

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