Risk Factors of Pulmonary Hypertension in Brazilian Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia

• Clarisse Lopes de Castro Lobo,

  Affiliation Clinical Hematology Division, Instituto de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti—HEMORIO, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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• Emilia Matos do Nascimento,

  Affiliations Clinical Hematology Division, Instituto de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti—HEMORIO, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, UEZO—Centro Universitário Estadual da Zona Oeste, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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• Renato Abelha,

  Affiliation Clinical Hematology Division, Instituto de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti—HEMORIO, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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• Ana Maria Mach Queiroz,

  Affiliation Clinical Hematology Division, Instituto de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti—HEMORIO, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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• Philippe Connes,

  Affiliation Laboratory CRIS-EA 647—Section “Vascular Biology and Red Blood Cell,” University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

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• Gilberto Perez Cardoso,

  Affiliation Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niteroi, RJ, Brazil

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• Samir K. Ballas

  * E-mail: samir.ballas@jefferson.edu

  Affiliations Clinical Hematology Division, Instituto de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti—HEMORIO, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, Cardeza Foundation, Department of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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