%0 Journal Article
%T El accidente vascular encef¨¢lico en ni£¿os con drepanocitosis
%A Svarch
%A Eva
%J Revista Cubana de Hematolog£¿-a, Inmunolog£¿-a y Hemoterapia
%D 2009
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X stroke is one of the more severe complications of drepanocytemia. it appears mainly in the first decade of life, with a trend to recurrence, and with cognitive and neurologic permanents. its optimal prevention and treatment are not accurately established, but nowadays, the more used strategies with better results are the red-blood cell transfusions and the hydroxyurea. transcranial doppler ultrasound (tcus) is an usefulness and safe method to predict stroke in many patients.
%K drepanocytemia
%K stroke
%K transcranial doppler ultrasound
%K hydroxyurea
%K pediatrics..
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0864-02892009000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en