Sickle Cell Anemia
Ultrasound Screening Helps Prevent Stroke in Children With Sickle Cell Disease
Published in Hospital Law Weekly, December 25th, 2008
Screening with an ultrasound machine has proved highly successful in preventing stroke among children with sickle cell disease, by identifying children who are then preventively treated with blood transfusions. Over an eight-year period at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers found that the technique, transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD), along with regular transfusions for children found to be at high risk, reduced stroke to one-tenth of the incidence found before TCD was introduced.
"We studied the impact of using TCD starting in 1998, when the technique became routine at our hospital and many other centers," said Janet L. Kwiatkowski, M.D., a...
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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2008-12-25)
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