Sentences with phrase «sickle cell center»

Over eighty patients are treated on a chronic transfusion regimen, receiving their monthly transfusions either in the Sickle Cell Center outpatient clinic or at the pheresis center.

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«While sickle cell newborn screening is standard in the U.S., very few infants are screened in Africa because of the high cost and level of skill needed to run traditional tests,» says Dr. Little, Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of Medsickle cell newborn screening is standard in the U.S., very few infants are screened in Africa because of the high cost and level of skill needed to run traditional tests,» says Dr. Little, Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of Mediccell newborn screening is standard in the U.S., very few infants are screened in Africa because of the high cost and level of skill needed to run traditional tests,» says Dr. Little, Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of MedSickle Cell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of MedicCell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of Medicine.

«New technology may standardize sickle cell disease screening for infants: UH Case Medical Center experts present new data at Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology.»

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has released the first comprehensive, evidence - based guidelines for management of sickle cell disease from birth to end of life, based on recommendations developed by a nationwide team of experts co-chaired by a UT Southwestern Medical Center hematologist.

To assess risk, Thomas Adamkiewicz, codirector of the Hemoglobinopathy / Genomics Training Program at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, surveyed four medical centers and found that seven children with sickle - cell disease had been treated with umbilical cord blood from unrelated donors.

He would spend his Saturday mornings in the lab conducting microbiology experiments and got exposed to the science of DNA during a summer internship at the university's Center for Sickle Cell Disease.

An international research team led by biochemists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) reduced the sickling of red blood cells in a mouse model of the disease.

Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., MPH, director of the Vanderbilt - Meharry Sickle Cell Disease Center of Excellence and professor of Pediatrics, was the principal investigator of the more than $ 20 million, federally - funded trial, the largest of its kind in children with sickleSickle Cell Disease Center of Excellence and professor of Pediatrics, was the principal investigator of the more than $ 20 million, federally - funded trial, the largest of its kind in children with sickle cCell Disease Center of Excellence and professor of Pediatrics, was the principal investigator of the more than $ 20 million, federally - funded trial, the largest of its kind in children with sicklesickle cellcell.

Dr. Haywood's dissertation examined the association of patient - centered care with trust in the medical profession among adults with sickle cell disease.

It's a high - tech treatment, and many sickle cell patients are low - income and far from a major medical center, he said.

Presentations & Publications Senior Research Seminar, St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport, CT) 1996 «Treatment of Failed Hemodialysis Access Sites: Comparison of Surgical Treatment with Thrombolysis / Percutaneous Angioplasty» American College of Physicians, Connecticut Chapter Spring Scientific Session 1996 «Treatment of Failed Hemodialysis Access Sites: Comparison of Surgical Treatment with Thrombolysis / Percutaneous Angioplasty» American College of Physicians, Connecticut Chapter Spring Scientific Session 1995 «Spinal Cord Infarction Secondary to Well Differentiated Lymphocytic Lymphoma» A Case Report American College of Physicians, Connecticut Chapter Spring Scientific Session 1995 «Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Disease» A Case Report

The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities recently translated key sickle cell fact sheets into Spanish and French.