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Tariku Jibat Beyene

Researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Publications -  56
Citations -  23087

Tariku Jibat Beyene is an academic researcher from Nationwide Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 41 publications receiving 19401 citations. Previous affiliations of Tariku Jibat Beyene include Wageningen University and Research Centre & Ohio State University.

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Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Patients on Hydroxyurea Have Higher Rates of Surgical Splenectomy.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated whether hydroxyurea therapy is associated with the need for surgical splenectomy among patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), and they hypothesized that as hydrooxyurea gained widespread use, surgical splensectomy among pediatric patients with SCD occurred at a higher rate and older age.