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GuidelineHematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program2024

Practical guide for disease-modifying medication management of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease.

Joseph Walden, Susan Creary

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Guideline in Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Optimizing the "right" patient selection for treatment for sickle cell disease.Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program · 2025
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  3. Review
  4. Genome editing strategies for targeted correction of β-globin mutation in sickle cell disease: From bench to bedside.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joseph WaldenDepartment of Pediatrics, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
Susan CrearyDepartment of Pediatrics, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydroxyurea has historically been the sole disease-modifying medication (DMM) for sickle cell disease (SCD). However, 3 newer DMMs, L-glutamine, voxelotor, and crizanlizumab, were approved for children and adolescents with SCD since 2017. Despite their emergence, treatment barriers, including access, affordability, and nonadherence, limit the optimization of DMMs in the clinical setting. Furthermore, there is limited work outlining real-world use and safety of the newer DMMs, and no published guidelines advise how best to select between DMMs or to use multiple in combination. Meanwhile, each DMM is associated with unique characteristics, such as tolerability, cost, and route of administration, which must be considered when weighing these options with patients and families. This article discusses DMMs for SCD and offers practical guidance on using the available DMMs in real-world settings based on published peer-reviewed studies and considering patient preferences. The recent withdrawal of one of these DMMs (voxelotor) from the market highlights the need for additional DMMs and evidence-based practices for adding DMMs and when to progress towards curative therapies.

Indexed as

Anemia, Sickle CellHydroxyureaAdolescentAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedBenzaldehydesChildFemaleHumansMalePyrazinesPyrazolesAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedBenzaldehydescrizanlizumabHydroxyureaPyrazinesPyrazolesvoxelotor

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PMID39644011
PMCPMC11665622

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