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Article: Reduce stroke risk in sickle cell anemia patients.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Pediatric News
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- March 1, 2007
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Orlando -- Careful screening with transcranial Doppler ultrasonography and treatment with chronic blood transfusion will likely reduce the number of strokes in children with sickle cell anemia, researchers reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology.
Dr. Orah S. Platt, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and chief of the department of laboratory medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, said that as overall health of patients with sickle cell anemia (SS) improves and diagnostic techniques become more sensitive, physicians are seeing pediatric patients with an increasingly wide range of subtle and not-so-subtle brain ...