Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Anemia and hemoglobinopathies

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

Anemia

• United Kingdom
  • Bandolier
    • Race, anaemia, and mortality [2007]
    • Economic Burden of Anaemia [2006]
    • Anaemia and Rheumatoid Arthritis [2006]
    • Anaemia and Mortality in Older People [2006]
  • British Society for Haematology
    • BCSH Guidelines
  • NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
    • The use of epoetin alfa before orthopaedic surgery in patients with mild anaemia [2006]
• United States of America
  • CDC National Center for Health Statistics
    • Anemia
  • Lab Tests Online - American Association for Clinical Chemistry
    • Anemia [2009]
  • Madigan Army Medical Center
    • Anemia in 12-month old Infants [2007]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Anemia in the long-term care setting. American Medical Directors Association [2007]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Worldwide prevalence of anaemia 1993-2005 : WHO global database on anaemia [2008]
    • WHO/UNICEF Statement on Anaemia [2004]
    • Reducing the burden of anemia in infants and young children in malaria-endemic countries of Africa: from evidence to action [2004]
    • Haemoglobin Colour Scale [2004]
    • Database on Anaemia
    • Anaemia
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Anemia in Children [2001]
    • Normocytic Anemia [2000]
    • Anemia in the Elderly [2000]
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Reducing the burden of anemia in infants and young children in malaria-endemic countries of Africa: from evidence to action [2004]
  • Blood
    • The definition of anemia: what is the lower limit of normal of the blood hemoglobin concentration? [2006]
  • BMC Geriatrics
    • Prevalence of anaemia in older persons: systematic review [2008]
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Accuracy of clinical pallor in the diagnosis of anaemia in children: a meta-analysis [2006]
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
    • Anaemia during critical illness [2006]
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
    • Anemia of chronic disease: A harmful disorder or an adaptive, beneficial response? [2008]
    • Erythropoietin-receptor agonists in critically ill patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [2007]
  • Chest
    • The Impact of Anemia in Patients With Respiratory Failure [2005]
    • Anemia in the Long-term Ventilator-Dependent Patient With Respiratory Failure [2005]
  • Critical Care
    • Anemia in Critical Care: Etiology, Treatment and Prevention [2004]
  • Hematology
    • Malaria and the Red Cell [2002]
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
    • Haemoglobin colour scale for anaemia diagnosis where there is no laboratory: a systematic review [2005]
  • Pediatrics
    • Screening for Anemia in Children: AAP Recommendations - A Critique [2001]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Anaemia: A Useful Indicator of Neglected Disease Burden and Control [2007]
• {Related topics}
  • Clinical tools, medical calculators, unit conversions, statistics, clinical research tools
    • Anemia : Clinical tools, medical calculators
  • Guidelines
    • Thalassemia
    • Sickle cell anemia
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Macrocytic anemia
    • Iron-deficiency anemia
    • Hemolytic anemia
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hemoglobin C disease
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Blood transfusion
    • Aplastic anemia
    • Anemia in kidney disease
    • Anemia in cancer

Anemia in cancer

• Canada
  • Cancer Care Ontario
    • Treatment for anemia with erythropoietic agents in patients with non-myeloid hematological malignancies: a clinical practice guideline [2007]
    • The role of erythropoietin in the managment of cancer patients with non-hematologic malignancies receiveing chemotherapy [2005]
• Europe
  • European Society for Medical Oncology
    • Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in cancer patients: ESMO Recommendations for use [2009]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Erythropoietin or Darbepoetin for patients with cancer - meta-analysis based on individual patient data [2009]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • A systematic review and economic evaluation of epoetin alfa, epoetin beta and darbepoetin alfa in anaemia associated with cancer, especially that attributable to cancer treatment [2007]
  • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
    • Anaemia (cancer-treatment induced) - erythropoietin (alpha and beta) and darbepoetin [2008]
  • NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
    • NICE (Multiple) Technology Appraisal Guidance No 142 – Epoetin alfa, epoetin beta and darbepoetin alfa for cancer treatment-induced anaemia [2008]
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Uses of Epoetin for Anemia in Oncology [2001]
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology
    • Use of epoetin in patients with cancer: evidence-based clinical practice guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology [2002]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Epoetin alfa, epoetin beta and darbepoetin alfa for cancer treatment-induced anaemia. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) [2008]
    • Use of epoetin and darbepoetin in patients with cancer: 2007 American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Society of Hematology clinical practice guideline update [2007]
    • Treatment for anemia with erythropoietic agents in patients with non-myeloid hematological malignancies: a clinical practice guideline. Program in Evidence-based Care [2007]
    • The role of erythropoietin in the management of cancer patients with non-hematologic malignancies receiving chemotherapy. Cancer Care Ontario [2005]
• Articles in journals
  • Annals of Oncology
    • Recombinant human erythropoietin in oncology: current status and further developments [2005]
    • Management of anaemia in patients with breast cancer: role of epoetin [2005]
    • Application and safety of erythropoietin in cancer management [2005]
  • Hematology
    • Erythropoietin: A Paradigm for the Development of Practice Guidelines [2001]
  • Journal of the National Cancer Institute
    • Recombinant Human Erythropoietins and Cancer Patients: Updated Meta-Analysis of 57 Studies Including 9353 Patients [2006]
    • Recombinant Human Erythropoietin and Overall Survival in Cancer Patients: Results of a Comprehensive Meta-analysis [2005]
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
    • Cancer-related anaemia requires higher doses of epoetin alfa than chronic renal failure replacement therapy [2001]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Anemia in kidney disease

• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Recombinant human erythropoietin for chronic renal failure anaemia in pre-dialysis patients [2009]
    • Haemoglobin and haematocrit targets for the anaemia of chronic kidney disease [2009]
    • Frequency of administration of recombinant human erythropoietin for anaemia of end-stage renal disease in dialysis patients [2009]
  • Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes
    • Clinical Practice Guidelines for Anemia in CKD: Problems and Solutions [2007]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
    • Anaemia management in chronic kidney disease [2006]
  • Royal College of Physicians
    • Anaemia management in chronic kidney disease. National clinical guideline for management in adults and children [2006]
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Use of Epoetin for Anemia in Chronic Renal Failure [2001]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • (1) KDOQI clinical practice guidelines and clinical practice recommendations for anemia in chronic kidney disease. (2) 2007 update of hemoglobin target. National Kidney Foundation [2007]
    • Anaemia management in chronic kidney disease. A national clinical guideline for management in adults and children. National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions [2006]
    • Anaemia and growth in children. Caring for Australasians with Renal Impairment [2005]
  • National Kidney Foundation
    • Clinical Practice Guidelines and Clinical Practice Recommendations for Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease [2006]
• Articles in journals
  • Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
    • Current Methods for Detecting Antibodies against Erythropoietin and Other Recombinant Proteins [2005]
  • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
    • Parenteral Iron Compounds: Potent Oxidants but Mainstays of Anemia Management in Chronic Renal Disease [2006]
    • Do We Know the Correct Hemoglobin Target for Anemic Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease? [2006]
    • Assessing Iron Status: Beyond Serum Ferritin and Transferrin Saturation [2006]
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
    • Update on Erythropoietin Treatment: Should Hemoglobin Be Normalized in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease? [2006]
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
    • Optimal Treatment of Anemia in Nephrology Outcome of the OPTA (OPtimal Treatment of Anemia) working groups [2007]
    • Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents: Treating the anaemia of chronic kidney disease [2007]
    • The role of anaemia in the genesis of cardiac abnormalities in patients with chronic kidney disease [2002]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Aplastic anemia

• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of aplastic anaemia [2009]
    • Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Acquired Aplastic Anaemia [2003]
• Articles in journals
  • Blood
    • Molecular pathogenesis of Fanconi anemia: recent progress [2006]
    • Current concepts in the pathophysiology and treatment of aplastic anemia [2006]
  • Hematology
    • Aplastic Anemia: Pathogenesis and Treatment [2007]
    • Pathophysiologic Mechanisms in Acquired Aplastic Anemia [2006]
    • Making Therapeutic Decisions in Adults with Aplastic Anemia [2006]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Blood transfusion

• Australia
  • Department of Health and Ageing
    • Vaccination of patients following receipt of other blood products including blood transfusions [2009]
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
    • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the use of Blood Components [2001]
  • Royal Children's Hospital
    • Blood Transfusion [2009]
  • Women & Newborn Health Service - Western Australia
    • Haematology Transfusion Medicine Protocols [2008]
• Canada
  • BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office
    • BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office - Guidelines
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Guideline for investigation of suspected transfusion transmitted bacterial contamination [2008]
    • Transfusion Transmitted Injuries Section - Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division
    • Bloodborne Pathogens Section - Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division
  • Toward Optimized Practice
    • Red Blood Cell and Plasma Transfusion: A Summary [2009]
• Europe
  • European Commission - Public Health
    • Blood
• India
  • Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
    • Guidelines for setting up blood storage centres at first referral units [2003]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Skin preparation with alcohol versus alcohol followed by any antiseptic for preventing bacteraemia or contamination of blood for transfusion [2009]
    • Cell salvage for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion [2009]
    • Anti-fibrinolytic use for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion [2009]
  • UNAIDS: The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
    • Universal precautions and blood safety
• Ireland
  • Department of Health and Children
    • National Blood Strategy Implementation Group Report [2004]
    • A guideline for transfusion of red blood cells in surgical patients [2001]
• Italy
  • Società Italiana di Medicina Trasfusionale e Immunoematologia
    • Recommendations for the transfusion of plasma and platelets [2009]
• Netherlands
  • Health Council of the Netherlands
    • Should blood donors be tested for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? [2007]
• PAHO
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • The Role of Laboratories and Blood Banks in Disaster Situations [2002]
    • Retreat on Blood Safety [2000]
• South Africa
  • Department of Health
    • Clinical Guidelines for the use of Blood products in South Africa - 3rd Edition [2003]
• United Kingdom
  • British Blood Transfusion Society
    • UK Transfusion Laboratory Collaborative: Recommended minimum standards for hospital transfusion laboratories [2009]
  • British Society for Haematology
    • The specification and use of Information Technology (IT) systems in Blood Transfusion Practice [2007]
    • Guidelines for policies on alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion : predeposit autologous blood donation and transfusion [2007]
    • Amendment to the Guidelines for the use of fresh-frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate and cryosupernatant [2007]
    • Guidelines for the use of Fresh Frozen Plasma, Cryoprecipitate and Cryosupernatant [2004]
    • Guidelines for compatibility procedures in blood transfusion laboratories [2004]
    • Guidelines for the clinical use of red cell tranfusion [2001]
    • Guidelines for blood bank computing [2000]
    • Guidelines for the administration of blood and blood components and the management of transfused patients [1999]
    • Blood Transfusion
  • Clinical Resource Efficiency Support Team
    • Better use of blood in Northern Ireland - guidelines for blood transfusion practice [2001]
  • Department of Health
    • The National Blood Transfusion Committee
    • Blood safety general information
    • Blood
  • Health Protection Agency
    • Bloodborne infections in blood donors
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Deferasirox for the treatment of iron overload associated with regular blood transfusions (transfusional haemosiderosis) in patients suffering with chronic anaemia: a systematic review and economic evaluation [2009]
  • NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
    • Blood Transfusion Clinical Standards [2006]
    • Safe and Effective Transfusion in Scottish Hospitals - The Role of the Transfusion Nurse Specialist [2004]
    • Report of the Steering Group on the Safe, Effective and Efficient Use of Blood Components and their Alternatives [2004]
  • UK Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Guidelines
    • UK Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Guidelines
• United States of America
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists
    • Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant Therapies: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Adjuvant Therapies [2005]
  • Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
    • Transfusion Verification and Identification Requirements for all Sites [2005]
  • Food and Drug Administration
    • Blood Products Advisory Committee
    • Blood & Blood Products
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Blood transfusion: indications and administration. Finnish Medical Society Duodecim [2008]
    • Guidelines for policies on alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion. 1. Predeposit autologous blood donation and transfusion. British Committee for Standards in Haematology [2007]
    • (1) Perioperative blood transfusion for elective surgery. A national clinical guideline. (2) Perioperative blood transfusion for elective surgery. Update to printed guideline. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network [2001]
  • University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
    • A Lower Hemoglobin Transfusion Threshold Is Safe for Stable Critically Ill Children [2009]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • The Blood Cold Chain [2002]
    • Aide-Mémoire on Quality Systems for Blood Safety [2002]
    • Aide-Mémoire on Blood Safety for National Blood Programmes [2002]
    • The Clinical Use of Blood in Medicine, Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Surgery and Anaesthesia, Trauma and Burns [2001]
    • Recommendations from the WHO Regional Workshop on Quality Assurance and Safety of Plasma Derivatives [2001]
    • Clinical Use of Blood Handbook [2001]
    • Blood Safety and Clinical Technology Strategy 2000-2003 [2001]
    • Blood Tranfusion Safety
• Articles in journals
  • Blood
    • Transfusion-related acute lung injury [2005]
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
    • Blood transfusion in critical illness [2002]
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
    • Blood conservation strategies to reduce the need for red blood cell transfusion in critically ill patients [2008]
    • Prospective audit of the use of fresh-frozen plasma, based on Canadian Medical Association transfusion guidelines [2002]
  • Chest
    • Anemia, Allogenic Blood Transfusion, and Immunomodulation in the Critically Ill [2005]
  • Clinical Chemistry
    • Transfusion Medicine: An Overview and Update [2000]
  • Clinics
    • Blood tranfusion in critically ill patients: state of the art [2007]
  • Critical Care
    • Debate: Transfusing to normal haemoglobin levels will not improve outcome [2001]
  • Hematology
    • The Evidence-Based Use of FFP and Cryoprecipitate for Abnormalities of Coagulation Tests and Clinical Coagulopathy [2007]
    • Management of RBC-Transfusion Dependence [2007]
    • Blood and Coagulation Support in Trauma Care [2007]
    • Red Cell Antigens as Functional Molecules and Obstacles to Transfusion [2002]
    • Reducing the Risk of Blood Transfusion [2001]
    • Preserving the National Blood Supply [2001]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Appropriateness of platelet, fresh frozen plasma and cryoprecipitate transfusion in New South Wales public hospitals [2003]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Hemoglobin C disease

• Articles in journals
  • eMedicine
    • Hemoglobin C Disease
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Hemoglobinopathies

• Australia
  • Genetics in Family Medicine: the Australian Handbook for General Practitioners
    • Haemoglobinopathies [2007]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Carrier screening for Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathies in Canada [2008]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Significant haemoglobinopathies: guidelines for screening and diagnosis [2009]
    • Guidelines on the laboratory diagnosis of haemoglobinopathies [1998]
    • General Haematology
• United States of America
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Carrier screening for thalassemia and hemoglobinopathies in Canada. Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada [2008]
• Articles in journals
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Genetics and blood - Haemoglobinopathies and clotting disorders [2007]
  • Blood
    • Elastic tissue abnormalities resembling pseudoxanthoma elasticum in beta thalassemia and the sickling syndromes [2002]
  • Clinical Chemistry
    • Laboratory Investigation of Hemoglobinopathies and Thalassemias: Review and Update [2000]
  • Hematology
    • Membrane Lipid Alterations in Hemoglobinopathies [2007]
    • Hemoglobin E Syndromes [2007]
    • Hemoglobinopathies [2003]
    • Secondary Iron Overload [2001]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Thalassemia
    • Sickle cell anemia
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobin C disease
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Hemolytic anemia

• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of the Thrombotic Microangiopathic Haemolytic Anaemias [2003]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: An Emerging Health Risk [2006]
    • Hemolytic Anemia [2004]
  • Hematology
    • Coagulation in the Pathophysiology of Hemolytic Anemias [2007]
    • Immune hemolytic anemia--selected topics [2006]
    • Immune-Mediated Hemolytic Anemia [2004]
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
    • Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome [2005]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Iron-deficiency anemia

• Canada
  • Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee - British Columbia
    • Investigation and management of iron deficiency [2004]
• India
  • All India Institute of Medical Sciences
    • Technical Consultation on "Strategies for Prevention and Control of Iron Deficiency Anemia amongst Under Three Children in India" [2002]
• International
  • Global Health Council
    • Does iron supplementation increase the risk of infectious diseases in children? [2003]
• PAHO
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Iron
• United Kingdom
  • British Society of Gastroenterology
    • Guidelines for the Management of Iron Deficiency Anaemia 2005 [2005]
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening/Supplementation: Iron Deficiency Anemia [2006]
    • Screening for Iron Deficiency Anemia--Including Iron Supplementation for Children and Pregnant Women: Recommendation Statement [2006]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Iron Fortification of Infant Formulas [1999]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Iron Deficiency --- United States, 1999--2000 [2002]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Screening for iron deficiency anemia - including iron supplementation for children and pregnant women. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2006]
  • University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
    • Iron Deficiency Is Not Adequately Detected by Routine Hemoglobin Screening [2005]
    • Prognosis of Severe Iron-deficiency, Despite Treatment in Infancy, is Poor [2000]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Complementary feeding and the control of iron deficiency anaemia [1999]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Iron Deficiency Anemia [2007]
    • Prevention of Iron Deficiency in Infants and Toddlers [2002]
  • Blood
    • Noninvasive measurement of iron: report of an NIDDK workshop [2003]
    • Hepcidin, a key regulator of iron metabolism and mediator of anemia of inflammation [2003]
    • Erythropoietin, iron, and erythropoiesis [2000]
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
    • The role of nutrition in the prevention of iron deficiency anemia in infants, children and adolescents [2003]
  • Clinical Chemistry
    • A Hematologic "Gold Standard" for Iron-deficient States? [2002]
  • Hematology
    • Iron Deficiency and Overload [2003]
    • Clinical Consequences of New Insights in the Pathophysiology of Disorders of Iron and Heme Metabolism [2000]
  • Indian Pediatrics
    • Iron Formulations in Pediatric Practice [2004]
    • Technical consultation on "Strategies for Prevention and Control of Iron Deficiency Anemia amongst under three children in India" [2002]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy
    • Blood transfusion
    • Anemia

Macrocytic anemia

• Articles in journals
  • Clinical Medicine & Research
    • Megaloblastic Anemia and Other Causes of Macrocytosis [2006]
  • eMedicine
    • Megaloblastic Anemia
    • Macrocytosis
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Sickle cell anemia

• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Splenectomy versus conservative management for acute sequestration crises in people with sickle cell disease [2009]
    • Psychological therapies for sickle cell disease and pain [2009]
    • Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease [2009]
    • Preoperative blood transfusions for sickle cell disease [2009]
    • Pneumococcal vaccines for sickle cell disease [2009]
    • Inhaled nitric oxide for acute chest syndrome in people with sickle cell disease [2009]
    • Hydroxyurea for sickle cell disease [2009]
    • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for children with sickle cell disease [2009]
    • Drugs for preventing red blood cell dehydration in people with sickle cell disease [2009]
    • Blood transfusion for preventing stroke in people with sickle cell disease [2009]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guidelines for the Management of Acute Painful Crisis in Sickle Cell Disease [2003]
  • NHS Evidence - Genetic conditions
    • Sickle Cell Anaemia [2006]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Sickle cell disease screening (in newborns) [2006]
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Hydroxyurea for the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease [2008]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Health Supervision for Children With Sickle Cell Disease [2006]
  • American Society of Hematology
    • Toward a New Research Paradigm: Building a New Sickle Cell Disease Research Agenda
  • CDC National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
    • Sickle Cell Disease
  • Lab Tests Online - American Association for Clinical Chemistry
    • Sickle Cell Anemia [2009]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference statement: hydroxyurea treatment for sickle cell disease [2008]
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
    • Management of Sickle Cell Disease
  • National Institutes of Health
    • NIH Consensus Development Conference: Hydroxyurea Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease [2008]
  • Sickle Cell Information Center
    • Sickle Cell Information Center
  • University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
    • Safety of Outpatient Treatment with Oral Antibiotics for Febrile Sickle Cell Patients Younger Than Five Years of Age Is Not Proven [2006]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Sickle-cell disease and other haemoglobin disorders [2006]
    • Sickle-cell anaemia [2006]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Opportunities to Improve Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease [2006]
    • Sickle Cell Disease in Childhood: Part II. Diagnosis and Treatment of Major Complications and Recent Advances in Treatment [2000]
    • Sickle Cell Disease in Childhood: Part I. Laboratory Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Health Maintenance [2000]
    • Approach to the Vaso-occlusive Crisis in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease [2000]
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
    • Anaesthesia for peculiar cells--a century of sickle cell disease [2005]
  • British Medical Journal
    • Managing sickle cell disease [2003]
  • Genetics
    • Sickle-Cell Anemia Hemoglobin: The Molecular Biology of the First "Molecular Disease"--The Crucial Importance of Serendipity [2004]
  • Hematology
    • Role of Adhesion Molecules and Vascular Endothelium in the Pathogenesis of Sickle Cell Disease [2007]
    • Limitations of Clinical Trials in Sickle Cell Disease: A Case Study of the Multi-center Study of Hydroxyurea (MSH) Trial and the Stroke Prevention (STOP) Trial [2007]
    • Hypercoagulability in Sickle Cell Disease: New Approaches to an Old Problem [2007]
    • Current Issues in Sickle Cell Pain and Its Management [2007]
    • Red Cell Exchange in Sickle Cell Disease [2006]
    • Prevention and Management of Stroke in Sickle Cell Anemia [2006]
    • Induction of Fetal Hemoglobin in the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease [2006]
    • Sickle Cell Disease [2004]
    • Novel Therapeutic Approaches in Sickle Cell Disease [2002]
    • Sickle Cell and the Brain [2001]
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
    • Sickle cell disease: old discoveries, new concepts, and future promise [2007]
  • Netherlands Journal of Medicine
    • Sickle cell disease; a general overview [2004]
  • Physiological Reviews
    • Ion Transport Pathology in the Mechanism of Sickle Cell Dehydration [2005]
  • RadioGraphics
    • Sickle Cell Anemia [2001]
  • Respiratory Research
    • Role of free radicals in the pathogenesis of acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease [2001]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Thalassemia

• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Psychological therapies for thalassaemia [2009]
    • Oral deferiprone for iron chelation in people with thalassaemia [2009]
    • Desferrioxamine mesylate for managing transfusional iron overload in people with transfusion-dependent thalassaemia [2009]
• United States of America
  • Lab Tests Online - American Association for Clinical Chemistry
    • Thalassemia [2007]
• Articles in journals
  • Blood
    • Oral chelators deferasirox and deferiprone for transfusional iron overload in thalassemia major: new data, new questions [2006]
    • Acquired {alpha}-thalassemia in association with myelodysplastic syndrome and other hematologic malignancies [2005]
    • Hemoglobin H disease: not necessarily a benign disorder [2003]
    • The hypercoagulable state in thalassemia [2002]
  • BMC Blood Disorders
    • Estimates of the effect on hepatic iron of oral deferiprone compared with subcutaneous desferrioxamine for treatment of iron overload in thalassemia major: a systematic review [2002]
  • British Medical Journal
    • Iranian national thalassaemia screening programme [2004]
  • Hematology
    • Thalassemia [2004]
    • Major Hematologic Diseases in the Developing World— New Aspects of Diagnosis and Management of Thalassemia, Malarial Anemia, and Acute Leukemia [2001]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Anemia