Concordance with comprehensive iron assessment, hepatitis A vaccination, and hepatitis B vaccination recommendations among patients with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia receiving chronic transfusions: an analysis from the Centers for Disease Control haemoglobinopathy blood safety project

Br J Haematol. 2021 Dec;195(5):e160-e164. doi: 10.1111/bjh.17798. Epub 2021 Aug 24.

Sherif M Badawy^{1

2}, Amanda B Payne³, Mary M Hulihan³, Thomas D Coates⁴, Suvankar Majumdar⁵, Dominic Smith⁶, Alexis A Thompson^{1

2}

¹ Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
³ Division of Blood Disorders, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁴ Cancer and Blood Disease Institute, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Children's National, Washington, DC, USA.
⁶ Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Lansing, MI, USA.

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Keywords: hepatitis; iron overload; sickle cell disease; thalassaemia; vaccines.

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