Poor school and cognitive functioning with silent cerebral infarcts and sickle cell disease. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The authors evaluated education attainment and neuropsychological deficits in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and silent cerebral infarcts. Children with silent infarcts had twice the rate of school difficulties as children without infarcts. Eighty percent of silent infarct cases had clinically significant cognitive deficits, whereas 35% had deficits in academic skills. Children with silent cerebral infarcts show high rates of poor educational attainment, cognitive deficits, and frontal lobe injury. Poor school performance in SCD is one indicator of silent infarcts.

publication date

  • April 24, 2001

Research

keywords

  • Anemia, Sickle Cell
  • Cerebral Infarction
  • Cognition
  • Educational Measurement
  • Neuropsychological Tests

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0035942334

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1212/wnl.56.8.1109

PubMed ID

  • 11320190

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 56

issue

  • 8