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Resultados do estudo do Doppler transcraniano em crianças e adolescentes portadores de doença falciforme e correlação entre a velocidade média máxima e características hematológicas: um estudo transversal analítico [PDF]
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Transcranial Doppler (TCD) detects stroke risk among children with sickle cell anemia (SCA). Our aim was to evaluate TCD findings in patients with different sickle cell disease (SCD) genotypes and correlate the time-averaged ...
Braga, Josefina Aparecida Pellegrini +3 more
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Acute Ischemic Stroke in Sickle Cell Disease Challenges for Thrombolysis
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hemoglobinopathy disorder that was recognized in 1949. Stroke is one of the most devastating complications of this disorder.
Amal Al Hashmi, Sanjith Aaron
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Prognostic significance of mutated genes in megakaryocytic disorders
Megakaryopoiesis is a process during which platelets that play a major role in hemostasis are produced due to differentiation and maturation of megakaryocytic precursors.
Ali Amin Asnafi +4 more
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First North American case of Hemoglobin Shepherds Bush (β 74[E18] Gly → Asp) in a central Pennsylvania family [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Hemoglobin Shepherds Bush (Human Genome Variation Society name: HBB:c.224G > A) is an unstable hemoglobin variant resulting from a β 74 GGC to GAC mutation (Gly to Asp) that manifests clinically as hemolytic anemia or gall bladder disease due
Jordan Olson +3 more
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ABSTRACT Hemoglobinopathies are prevalent globally; diagnosis is complex in high genetic admixture populations like Brazil. We report, in two pediatric siblings, the first documented cases in Brazil of heterozygosity for hemoglobin (Hb) O‐Arab with coinheritance of α‐thalassemia (αα/−α4.2; −α3.7/−α4.2), resulting in microcytic and hypochromic anemia ...
Elisângela de Souza Miranda Muynarsk +9 more
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The Iowa Perinatal Letter, April-May-June 2008, Vol. 29, no. 2 [PDF]
This newsletter from The Department of Public Health about perinatal health care and ...
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Exertional sickling: Questions and controversy [PDF]
Sickle cell trait (SCT) occurs in about 8% of African-Americans and is often described to be of little clinical consequence. Over time, a number of risks have emerged, and among these are rare but catastrophic episodes of sudden death in athletes and ...
Blinder, Morey A., Russel, Sarah
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Information Shocks, Legal Liability and Physician Decisions
ABSTRACT Physician adoption of new information about a medical procedure can affect patient outcomes. Medical malpractice law may influence physician use of such information. We analyze how physician reactions to information shocks regarding vaginal births after cesarean sections (VBACs) in the 1990s were mediated by tort reform and the standard used ...
David Mushinski, Sammy Zahran
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To evaluate, by Magnetic Resonance Imaging, if there is a typical pattern or severity of PRES in transplanted children for hemoglobinopathy. Secondary point was to investigate the pattern and severity of PRES in children with thalassemia-THAL and sickle ...
Eliseo Picchi +9 more
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BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of α-thalassemia can be challenging as it is clinically insignificant in the majority of patients who are presented with one or two α-gene deletion, it cannot be always suspected from the red cell indices, and the confirmatory tests
Abbas Hashim Abdulsalam +2 more
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