Cognitive evoked potentials and neural networks are abnormal in children with sickle cell disease and not related to the degree of anaemia, pain and silent infarcts

Br J Haematol. 2015 May;169(4):597-600. doi: 10.1111/bjh.13232. Epub 2014 Nov 21.

Authors

Raffaella Colombatti¹, Mario Ermani, Patrizia Rampazzo, Renzo Manara, Maria Montanaro, Giuseppe Basso, Giorgio Meneghetti, Laura Sainati

Affiliation

¹ Clinic of Paediatric Haematology-Oncology, Department of Child and Maternal Health, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy. rcolombatti@gmail.com.

PMID: 25413732
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.13232

No abstract available

Keywords: cognitive; neurophysiology; pain; sickle cell disease.

Publication types

Clinical Trial
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Anemia, Sickle Cell / complications
Anemia, Sickle Cell / physiopathology*
Brain Infarction / etiology
Brain Infarction / physiopathology*
Child
Cognition*
Evoked Potentials*
Female
Humans
Male
Nerve Net / physiopathology*
Pain / etiology
Pain / physiopathology*