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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]

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  • Hemoglobinopathies
  • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
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