Mortality in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease. Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease.

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Summary

Comparison of this study's overall mortality with previous reports indicates improvement of survival in US patients less than 20 years of age with sickle hemoglobinopathies, and this improvement is most likely due to parental education and counseling about the illness and the early institution of antibiotics in suspected infections.

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1989-09-01
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Medicine, Pediatrics, Disease, Incidence (geometry), Sickle cell anemia

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