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Elliott Vichinsky

Researcher at Children's Hospital Oakland

Publications -  439
Citations -  32531

Elliott Vichinsky is an academic researcher from Children's Hospital Oakland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thalassemia & Sickle cell anemia. The author has an hindex of 87, co-authored 424 publications receiving 29555 citations. Previous affiliations of Elliott Vichinsky include University of California, San Francisco & Boston Children's Hospital.

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Pain in sickle cell disease. Rates and risk factors.

TL;DR: The "pain rate" is a measure of clinical severity and correlates with early death in patients with sickle cell anemia over the age of 20, and even when the fetal hemoglobin level is low, one can predict that small increments in the level may have an ameliorating effect on the pain rate and may ultimately improve survival.
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Prophylaxis with oral penicillin in children with sickle cell anemia. A randomized trial.

TL;DR: It is concluded that children should be screened in the neonatal period for Sickle cell hemoglobinopathy and that those with sickle cell anemia should receive prophylactic therapy with oral penicillin by four months of age to decrease the morbidity and mortality associated with pneumococcal septicemia.
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Effect of Hydroxyurea on Mortality and Morbidity in Adult Sickle Cell Anemia: Risks and Benefits Up to 9 Years of Treatment

TL;DR: In a long-term observational follow-up study of mortality in patients with SCA who originally participated in the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea in Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia (MSH), conducted in 1992-1995, to determine whether hydroxyuraxurea attenuates mortality in Patients With SCA as discussed by the authors.