Sickle Cell Disease and Associated Seizures

Abstract

The prevalence of cerebral vasculopathy in 76 patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), with and without seizures, and of magnetic resonance (MR) perfusion abnormality in those with recent seizures, was determined in a study at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.

Keywords

• sickle cell disease
• magnetic resonance
• asymptomatic