Risk For Stroke, Death Not Higher For Sickle Cell Children With Early Complications
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:00 AM EST
... Children with sickle cell disease who experienced major complications such as pain and lung disease early in life are at no greater risk for stroke or death during later childhood, new research from UT Southwestern Medical Center shows. ...
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- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Sickle Cell
- Anemia
- Risk Factors
- Pregnancy Complications
- Stroke
- Mini-Strokes
- Amniocentesis
- Births, Deaths & Marriages
- Thalassemia
- Early death
- Stroke, if clots break off and travel to the brain (drugs that thin the blood such as heparin and warfarin can reduce the risk)
- Security Risk Assessment
- Stem Cell Research
- Ibuprofen Suspension
- Cardiac Risk
- Education
- Secondhand Smoke
- High Risk Pregnancy
- Small Cell Lung Cancer

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