Brazilian Guidelines for transcranial doppler in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease

Brazilian Guidelines for transcranial doppler in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease

BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease is the most common monogenic hereditary disease in Brazil. Although strokes are one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in these patients, the use of transcranial Doppler to identify children at risk is not universally used. OBJECTIVE: To develop Brazilian g...

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Main Authors: Clarisse Lopes de Castro Lobo, Rodolfo Delfini Cançado, Ana Claudia Celestino Bezerra Leite, Ana Claudia Mendonça dos Anjos, Ana Cristina Silva Pinto, Andre Palma da Cunha Matta, Célia Maria Silva, Gisele Sampaio Silva, João Ricardo Friedrisch, Josefina Aparecida Pellegrini Braga, Marcos Christiano Lange, Maria Stella Figueiredo, Marília Álvares Rugani, Orlando Veloso, Patrícia Gomes Moura, Paulo Ivo Cortez, Robert Adams, Sandra Fátima Menosi Gualandro, Shirley Lopes de Castilho, Ursula Thomé, Viviane Flumignan Zetola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2011-02-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
Subjects:
Ultrasonography, doppler, transcranial
Anemia, sickle cell
Hemoglobin
Stroke
Child
Adolescent
Guideline
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