World Wide Resources Stroke Prevention

World Wide Web Sites

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Health Care Providers,  Patients and Families, Kid Friendly, Organizations, New Born Screening - Genetics, Teachers and Students, Bone Marrow Transplant, Cord Blood - Stem Cell, Incidence and distribution,  Pain Management, Stroke prevention - Transfusion, Other medical sites

American Acadamy of Pediatrics article :Health Supervision for Children With Sickle Cell Diseases and Their Families at http://www.aap.org/policy/01564.html

Sickle Cell Summary by Michael Joyce, M.D. a Hematologist/Oncologist at Nemours Children's Clinic / Jacksonville.    at http://www.dcmsonline.org/jax-medicine/june2000/clinical.htm

Iron Overload and Chelation Therapy Information from The Children's Hospital at Oakland at http://www.thalassemia.com/transfusion/overload.shtml Chelation Therapy at http://www.thalassemia.com/transfusion/chelation.shtml

The Clinical Trials web site at http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui - The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.NIH Clinical Trials for Sickle Cell Currently ongoing at http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/c/b/action/FindCondition?ui=D000755&recruiting=true

The Medical College of Georgia STOP Study Web Site at http://www.neuro.mcg.edu/cvhp/STOP/index.html - The Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia, or STOP, was a randomized trial which proved that periodic (approximately monthly) blood transfusions prevent strokes in children with sickle cell anemia who had not yet had a stroke. This site has links to Centers that can perform TCD screening and courses for TCD screening

Stroke prevention by Trans Cranial Doppler Ultrasound

TCD Informational handout

STARS clinic for stroke rehabilitation

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