Neonatal screening improves sickle cell disease clinical outcome in Belgium
Neonatal screening improves sickle cell disease clinical outcome in Belgium
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DOI:
10.1177/0969141317701166
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发表时间:
2018-06-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Gulbis, Beatrice
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作者:
Phu-Quoc Le;Ferster, Alina;Gulbis, Beatrice
Objectives: To compare the outcomes of sickle cell disease patients diagnosed through neonatal screening with those who were not.Methods: In an observational multicenter study in Belgium, 167 screened and 93 unscreened sickle cell disease patients were analyzed for a total of 1116 and 958 patient-years of follow-up, respectively. Both groups were compared with propensity score analysis, with patients matched on three covariates (gender, genotype, and central Africa origin). Bonferroni correction was applied for all comparisons.Results: Kaplan-Meier estimates of survival without bacteremia were significantly higher in the screened group than the unscreened group (94.47%; [95% CI, 88.64-97.36%] versus 83.78% [95% CI, 72.27-90.42%]), p = 0.032. Non-significant differences between both groups were reported for survival without acute chest syndrome, acute anemia, cerebral complication, severe infection, and vaso-occlusive crisis. Significantly lower hospitalization rate and days per 100 patient-years were observed in the screened compared with the unscreened group (0.27 vs. 0.63 and 1.25 vs. 2.82, p = 0.0006 and