GGrantIndex
← Search

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE--STROKE PREVENTION TRIAL

$25,799M01FY2000RRNIH

University Of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA

Investigators

Linked publications & trials

Abstract

Transcranial Doppler has been developed as a noninvasive method of predicting stroke risk. This is a screening program, using Transcranial Doppler, and treatment strategy, using chronic transfusion therapy, that could prevent brain injury and disability or death from first time ischemic stroke in young children with sickle cell disease.

View original record on NIH RePORTER →