镰状细胞病(SCD)导致幼儿脑部的改变,早在卒中和学习障碍被发现以前就发生了。 St.Jude儿童医院影像诊断学副教授R.Grand Steen说,病人脑部的损害比想象的要早。 Steen和她的同事们对尚没有任何神经系统损害表现的SCD病儿进行了临床非常规应用的 Sickle cell disease (SCD) causes changes in the brains of young children that occurred long before strokes and learning disabilities were detected. R.Grand Steen, an associate professor of imaging diagnostics at St. Jude Children’s Hospital, said that the damage to the brain of a patient is earlier than imagined. Steen and her colleagues did clinical non-routine clinical use for children with SCD who did not have any evidence of neurological compromise