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Do you screen children with sickle cell disease for silent cerebral infarcts?

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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · Nationwide Children's Hospital

We screen children with sickle cell disease for SCIs at our center. This is because data suggest that silent cerebral infarcts (SCIs) are much more common than overt stroke and the long-term negative impacts of SCIs are significant. There are also treatments (e.g., chronic transfusion and stem cell ...

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