1 Department of Pediatrics, Bayero University/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.
2 Department of Pediatrics, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.
3 Department of Community Medicine, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.
4 Department of Pharmacy, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.
5 Hasiya Bayero Pediatric Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.
6 Department of Pediatrics, Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.
7 Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Barau-Dikko Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, Nigeria.
8 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
9 Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt-Meharry-Matthew Walker Center of Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
10 Department of Hematology and Oncology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
11 Department of Pediatrics, Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
12 Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
13 Rodeghier Consultants, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
14 Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Oral iron supplementation in iron deficient children with sickle cell anemia and normal transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) velocities does not reduce arterial flow in the middle cerebral artery.