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Clinical events in a large prospective cohort of children with sickle cell disease in Nagpur, India: evidence against a milder clinical phenotype in India.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Oct 2016
Jain Dipty, Arjunan Aishwarya, Sarathi Vijaya, Jain Harshwardhan, Bhandarwar Amol, Vuga Marike, Krishnamurti Lakshmanan
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BACKGROUND: The clinical phenotype of sickle cell disease (SCD) has been reported to be milder in India than in the United States. The objective of this large single-center study was to examine the rate of complications to define the phenotype of SCD in India. METHODS: The rate of complications per 100 person-years in 833 pediatric SCD patients for 1954 person-years in Nagpur, India including those diagnosed on...
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