High mortality among children with sickle cell anemia and overt stroke who discontinue blood transfusion after transition to an adult program.
CONCLUSION: Efforts must be made to maintain adequate chronic simple or exchange blood transfusion for children with SS and stroke after transition to adult care.
PMID: 26593779 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Transfusion - Category: Hematology Authors: McLaughlin JF, Ballas SK Tags: Transfusion Source Type: research
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