%0 Journal Article
%T Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography to Prevent Cerebrovascular Accident in Children with Sickle-Cell Disease
%A Giuliana Carpentieri-Pipolo
%A Marcelo de Lima Oliveira
%A Fernando Mendes Paschoal Junior
%A Edson Bor-Seng-Shu
%J Neuroscience & Medicine
%P 162-173
%@ 2158-2947
%D 2019
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/nm.2019.102011
%X Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is the most common cause of ischemic stroke in children and it happens in about 11% of patients between the age of 2 and 20 years old. About 7% of the world population is affected by hemoglobin disorders, mostly sickle cell anemia. SCD has a high prevalence in the population of African offspring and it is a public health problem in Brazil that affects more than 30,000 million people. Prevention of primary stroke might be feasible with a way to identify children at greatest risk. Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography (TCD) to SCD patients can be a valuable service that results in a significant decrease of first stroke rates. In this work, we present a review about TCD as an effective strategy to detect children with SCD who are at risk for stroke.
%K Transcranial Doppler
%K Sickle Cell Disease
%K Stroke in Children
%K Cerebrovascular Disease
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=92930