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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"pediatric Sickle Cell Disease"”.
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Understanding Fatigue in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease
… symptom for adults with SCD and other pediatric populations, but less is known about the experience of fatigue for youth with SCD. The present study described the experience of fatigue in children and adolescents with SCD, and examined the combined and unique influences of anemia, sleep …
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Family Environment and Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease: Patterns of Health Care Utilization and Academic Achievement
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common group of genetic, chronic hematologic disorders, and is characterized by chronic pain resulting from vaso-occlusive episodes. As such, youth with SCD utilize a disproportionately high amount of health care resources. Youth with frequent health care …
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Examining Barriers to Care, Adherence, Quality of Life and Health Outcomes in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited genetic disorder that affects approximately 1 outof every 500 African Americans. Managing SCD requires adherence to very specific medicalregimens to ensure positive health outcomes. If we are to improve treatment adherence inpediatric SCD, we must first …
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Automated precision computational image analysis and applied machine learning for experimental and clinical hematology applications
… of science and medicine spanning research at the cellular level to clinical treatment for patient well-being. Imaging at all scales, ranging from microscopy to diagnostic scans of the body, represents one of the best methods to investigate salient features of fundamental biology and disease. The …
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A Family-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
… cognitive-behavioral family treatment (CBFT) for pediatric patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) to improve pain symptoms, health-related quality of life, functionality, depression, and coping strategies. Individual cognitive-behavioral treatment has been shown previously to be effective at …
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An Investigation of Episodic Memory Performance in Relation to Inflammation in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
It is now well established that children with sickle cell disease (SCD) demonstrate cognitive deficits even in the absence of clinical stroke, but studies in children who have not experienced a stroke or other neurological event are lacking. Systemic processes that occur in SCD, like chronic …
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Predictors Of Use Of Hydroxyurea And Its Impact On Clinical And Economic Outcomes Among Children With Sickle Cell Disease
… its impact on clinical and economic outcomes in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) enrolled in Medicaid. Methods: A cohort of patients with SCD was identified in 2006 using ICD-9-CM codes from Medicaid claims from 40 US states. Patients who filled three prescriptions of HU in …