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SUBMITTER: Rogers ZR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3062353 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rogers Zora R ZR Wang Winfred C WC Luo Zhaoyu Z Iyer Rathi V RV Shalaby-Rana Eglal E Dertinger Stephen D SD Shulkin Barry L BL Miller John H JH Files Bea B Lane Peter A PA Thompson Bruce W BW Miller Scott T ST Ware Russell E RE
Blood 20110107 9
We evaluated spleen function in 193 children with sickle cell anemia 8 to 18 months of age by (99m)Tc sulfur-colloid liver-spleen scan and correlated results with clinical and laboratory parameters, including 2 splenic biomarkers: pitted cell counts (PIT) and quantitative Howell-Jolly bodies (HJB) enumerated by flow cytometry. Loss of splenic function began before 12 months of age in 86% of infants in association with lower total or fetal hemoglobin and higher white blood cell or reticulocyte co ...[more]