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Preoperative blood transfusions for sickle cell disease
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Background
Sickle cell disease is one of the commonest severe monogenic disorders in the world, due to the inheritance of two abnormal haemoglobin (beta globin) genes. Sickle cell disease can cause severe pain, significant end-organ damage, pulmonary complications, and premature death. Surgical interventions are more common in people with sickle cell disease, and occur at much younger ages than in the general population. Blood transfusions are frequently used prior to surgery and ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1002/14651858.CD003149.pub3
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National Health Service Blood and Transplant
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National Institute for Health Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Cochrane Collaboration Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Journal website
- Volume:
- 2016
- Issue:
- 4
- Publication date:
- 2016-04-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-04-05
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1469-493X
- Source identifiers:
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613948
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pubs:613948
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uuid:69f52afa-a2e6-4f12-ab86-e2502c66285e
- Local pid:
- pubs:613948
- Deposit date:
- 2016-04-06
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- Cochrane Collaboration
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2016 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
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