The relationship between the severity of hemolysis, clinical manifestations and risk of death in 415 patients with sickle cell anemia in the US and Europe

The intensity of hemolytic anemia has been proposed as an independent risk factor for the development of certain clinical complications of sickle cell disease, such as pulmonary hypertension, hypoxemia and cutaneous leg ulceration. A composite variable derived from several individual markers of hemo...

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Main Authors: Mehdi Nouraie, Janet S. Lee, Yingze Zhang, Tamir Kanias, Xuejun Zhao, Zeyu Xiong, Timothy B. Oriss, Qilu Zeng, Gregory J. Kato, J. Simon R. Gibbs, Mariana E. Hildesheim, Vandana Sachdev, Robyn J. Barst, Roberto F. Machado, Kathryn L. Hassell, Jane A. Little, Dean E. Schraufnagel, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, Enrico Novelli, Reda E. Girgis, Claudia R. Morris, Erika Berman Rosenzweig, David B. Badesch, Sophie Lanzkron, Oswaldo L. Castro, Jonathan C. Goldsmith, Victor R. Gordeuk, Mark T. Gladwin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ferrata Storti Foundation 2013-03-01
Series:Haematologica
Online Access:https://haematologica.org/article/view/6602