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Transcranial Doppler Velocities among Sickle Cell Disease Patients in Steady State.
Hemoglobin - 1 Nov 2020
Salama Khaled, Rady Rasha, Hashem Rania H, El-Ghamrawy Mona
Abstract excerpt
Transcranial Doppler (TCD) screening is an established tool to identify children with sickle cell disease at high risk of stroke. Our objective was to study TCD velocities among sickle cell disease patients while in a steady state. This cross-sectional study included 78 steady state sickle cell disease patients [31 Hb SS (βS/βS) (sickle cell anemia), 47 Hb S/β-thalassemia (HBB: c.20A>T/β-thal)], attending the...
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