Mortality in Sickle Cell Disease

To the Editor: The article by Platt et al. (June 9 issue) 1 described the risk factors associated with early death in patients with sickle cell disease -- specifically, they found that, of the 69 “healthy” patients with sickle cell anemia who died, approximately 22 percent had acute strokes. Recentl...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 1994-10, Vol.331 (15), p.1022-1023
Hauptverfasser:	Rodgers, G P, Walker, E C, Podgor, M J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Anemia, Sickle Cell - complications Anemia, Sickle Cell - mortality Humans Hypertension - complications Risk Factors
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