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Optimal Manual Exchange Transfusion Protocol for Sickle Cell Disease: A Retrospective Comparison of Two Comprehensive Care Centers in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Hemoglobin - 1 Jan 2015
Mian Hira S, Ward Richard, Telfer Paul, Kaya Banu, Kuo Kevin H M
Abstract excerpt
Chronic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is employed for a wide range of sickle cell disease complications, ranging from primary and secondary stroke prophylaxis to prevention of painful vaso-occlusive episodes. Currently different methods are employed by centers for chronic transfusion that include simple, automated and partial manual RBC exchange transfusion. A retrospective cohort study of two different manual...
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