Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Jun 2006)

Stroke Prevention Trials in Sickle Cell Anemia

  • J Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-20-6-10
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 6
pp. 48 – 48

Abstract

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As part of an International Pediatric Stroke Study launched in 2002, the Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia (STOP) reports a reduction in the number of overt clinical strokes in children with critically high transcranial Doppler velocities (>200 cm/sec) who were regularly transfused.

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