Jennifer M Jones, Julia Wool, Elizabeth P Crowe, Evan M Bloch, Lydia H Pecker, Sophie Lanzkron
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Abstract
Background: Many children with sickle cell disease (SCD) who suffer a stroke receive chronic transfusion therapy (CTT) indefinitely; however, their adulthood neurologic outcomes have not been reported. Understanding these outcomes is critical to inform decisions regarding curative therapy in childhood.
Study design and methods: In this retrospective study, we described a cohort of adults with SCD and a history of childhood stroke who received care at a single center and compared their outcomes with matched subjects without childhood stroke using chi2 and Mann-Whitney U tests.
Results: Of 42 subjects with childhood stroke, all received CTT for secondary stroke prophylaxis. Five (11%) developed recurrent stroke. The rate of stroke was similar in subjects with and without childhood stroke (0.7 vs. 1.1 per 100 person·years, p = .63). Both cohorts exhibited evidence of iron overload (median ferritin 2227 vs. 1409 ng/dL, p = .10) and alloimmunization (45% vs. 45%, p = 1.0), despite receiving care in a comprehensive SCD program.
Discussion: For adults with SCD who had a childhood stroke, our results suggest CTT returns the risk of stroke to that of age-matched stroke naïve patients with SCD.
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TRANSFUSION is the foremost publication in the world for new information regarding transfusion medicine. Written by and for members of AABB and other health-care workers, TRANSFUSION reports on the latest technical advances, discusses opposing viewpoints regarding controversial issues, and presents key conference proceedings. In addition to blood banking and transfusion medicine topics, TRANSFUSION presents submissions concerning patient blood management, tissue transplantation and hematopoietic, cellular, and gene therapies.