[Chronic brain damage in sickle cell disease and its relation with quality of life].

CONCLUSIONS: Poor school performance affects half of the patients and it is related to nocturnal hypoxemia, although other socio-cultural factors may have an influence. Quality of life is affected in most of these cases independently of academic results. The absence of alterations in neuroimaging or the apparent lack of severe clinical parameters do not mean that quality of life and schooling are normal. PMID: 27692991 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27692991?dopt=Abstract

Source: Medicina Clinica - October 5, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Med Clin (Barc) Source Type: research