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Carol K. Phebus
Researcher at University of Pittsburgh
Publications - 8
Citations - 241
Carol K. Phebus is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cytogenetics & Klinefelter syndrome. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 8 publications receiving 238 citations.
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Growth patterns by age and sex in children with sickle cell disease
TL;DR: Analysis of growth trends by age reveals a pattern of increasing deficit with increasing age; boys are more severely affected than girls; and growth velocity curves illustrate the marked delay in the onset of the normal pubertal growth spurt in patients.
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Zinc status of children with sickle cell disease: Relationship to poor growth
TL;DR: The origin of low serum zinc levels in children with SCD is more likely to relate to factors such as increased urinary zinc excretion, chronic intravascular hemolysis, and/or zinc malabsorption.
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Cardiorespiratory Decompensation Following Methylprednisolone Administration
TL;DR: A 2-year-old white female receiving multidrug chemotherapy for treatment of a primitive neuroectodermal tumor developed acute hypotension, bradycardia, and shock following administration of ondansetron and high-dose methylprednisolone.
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Rhabdomyosarcoma in Roberts syndrome.
Sharon L. Wenger,Julie Blatt,Mark W. Steele,David A. Lloyd,Mark F. Bellinger,Carol K. Phebus,Marianna Horn,Ronald Jaffe +7 more
TL;DR: A 23-month-old child diagnosed as having Roberts syndrome, born to consanguineous parents, developed a sarcoma botryoides.
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Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome terminating in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
TL;DR: It is speculated that this child may have had an evolving lymphoproliferative syndrome with a terminal blast crisis to which the eosinophilia was a nonmalignant leukemoid reaction.