Sickle cell disease

MJ Bonner, ES Puffer, VW Willard - Textbook of pediatric …, 2010 - books.google.com
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited autosomal recessive disorders, including
sickle cell anemia, sickle beta-thalassemia, and other hemoglobinopathies, which are …

Psychological complications in sickle cell disease

KA Anie - British journal of haematology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This review examines the evidence for some of the common psychological complications
found across the life span of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), which are likely to be …

Cognitive functioning and brain magnetic resonance imaging in children with sickle cell disease

FD Armstrong, RJ Thompson Jr, W Wang… - …, 1996 - publications.aap.org
Objective. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neuropsychological evaluations
were conducted to determine whether neuroradiographic evidence of infarct in children with …

Neuropsychologic performance in school-aged children with sickle cell disease: a report from the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease

W Wang, L Enos, D Gallagher, R Thompson… - The Journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Objectives: To compare the results of serial neuropsychologic testing in children with sickle
cell disease with the results of serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations …

A brief review of the pathophysiology, associated pain, and psychosocial issues in sickle cell disease

CL Edwards, MT Scales, C Loughlin… - International journal of …, 2005 - Springer
abstract Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common genetic disorder of the blood. The
disease produces significantly abnormal hemoglobin (Hgb) molecules in red blood cells …

Health‐related quality of life in children with sickle cell disease: Child and parent perception

JA Panepinto, KM O'Mahar, MR DeBaun… - British journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Health‐related quality of life (HRQL) is an outcome that may be used to measure the impact
of sickle cell disease on the child and their family but has not been routinely assessed in this …

Hydroxyurea treatment and neurocognitive functioning in sickle cell disease from school age to young adulthood

AM Heitzer, J Longoria, V Okhomina… - British Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurocognitive impairment is common in sickle cell disease (SCD) and is associated with
significant functional limitations. In a cross‐sectional analysis, we examined the association …

Psychological therapies for sickle cell disease and pain

KA Anie, J Green - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Sickle cell disease comprises a group of genetic blood disorders. It occurs
when the sickle haemoglobin gene is inherited from both parents. The effects of the …

Matched‐related donor transplantation for sickle cell disease: report from the Center for International Blood and Transplant Research

JA Panepinto, MC Walters, J Carreras… - British journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We report outcomes after myeloablative haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) from
human leucocyte antigen (HLA)‐matched sibling donors in 67 patients with sickle cell …

Neurocognitive functioning and magnetic resonance imaging in children with sickle cell disease

RT Brown, PC Davis, R Lambert, L Hsu… - Journal of pediatric …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Objective: To examine neurocognitive functioning in children classified with overt cerebral
vascular accidents (CVAs), silent infarcts, or without central nervous system (CNS) …