Sickle Cell Disease: Resources

BOOKS

• Beutler, Ernest. "The Sickle Cell Diseases and Related Disorders." In Williams Hematology, edited by Ernest Beutler, et al. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
• Bloom, Miriam. Understanding Sickle Cell Disease. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
• Embury, Stephen H., et al., eds. Sickle Cell Disease: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice. New York: Raven Press, 1994.
• Reid, C.D., S. Charache, and B. Lubin, eds. Management and Therapy of Sickle Cell Disease. 3rd ed. National Institutes of Health Publication No. 96-2117, 1995.

PERIODICALS

• Adams, R. J., et al. "Prevention of a First Stroke by Transfusions in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia and Abnormal Results on Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography." New England Journal of Medicine, 339 (1998): 5-11.
• Davies, Sally C. "Management of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease." British Medical Journal 315 (September 13,1997): 656.
• Golden, C., L. Styles, and E. Vichinsky. "Acute Chest syndrome and Sickle Cell Disease." Current Opinion in Hematology 5 (1998): 89-92.
• Hoppe, C., L. Styles, and E. Vichinsky. "The Natural History of Sickle Cell Disease." Current Opinion in Pediatrics 10(1998): 49-52.
• Kinney, T.R., et al. "Safety of Hydroxyurea in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia: Results of the HUG-KIDS Study, A Phase I/II Trial." Blood 94 (1999): 1550-1554.
• Platt, O., et al. "Mortality in Sickle Cell Disease: Life Expectancy and Risk Factors for Early Death." New England Journal of Medicine 330 (1994): 1639-1644.
• Reed, W., and E.P. Vichinsky. "New Considerations in the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease." Annual Review of Medicine 49 (1998): 461.
• Schnog, J.B., et al. "New Concepts in Assessing Sickle Cell Disease Severity." American Journal of Hematology 58 (1998): 61-66.
• Serjeant, Graham R. "Sickle-Cell Disease." The Lancet 350 (September 6, 1997): 725.
• Singer, S.T., et al. "Erythrocytapheresis for Chronically Transfused Children with Sickle Cell Disease: An Effective Method for Maintaining a Low Hemoglobin S Level and Reducing Iron Overload." Journal of Clinical Apheresis 14 (1999): 122-125.
• Xu, K., et. al. "First Unaffected Pregnancy Using Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Sickle Cell Anemia." Journal of the American Medical Association 281 (1999): 1701-1706.

ORGANIZATIONS

• Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. 200 Corporate Point Suite 495, Culver City, CA 90230-8727. (800) 421-8453. <Scdaa@sicklecelldisease.org>. <http://sicklecelldisease.org/>.
• [Article by: Jennifer Bojanowski]



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