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Samir K Ballas
Lactate dehydrogenase and hemolysis in sickle cell disease.
Samir K Ballas
Transfusion medicine illustrated. The first Cardeza donor center: attracting donors who do not wsh to see blood.
Samir K Ballas; Kalpna Gupta; Patricia Adams-Graves
Sickle cell pain: a critical reappraisal.

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2013: Samir K Ballas
Lactate dehydrogenase and hemolysis in sickle cell disease.
Blood 2013;121(1):243-4.
2013: Samir K Ballas
Transfusion medicine illustrated. The first Cardeza donor center: attracting donors who do not wsh to see blood.
Transfusion 2013;53(1):13.
2012: Samir K Ballas; Kalpna Gupta; Patricia Adams-Graves
Sickle cell pain: a critical reappraisal.
Blood 2012;120(18):3647-56.
2012: Samir K Ballas
More definitions in sickle cell disease: steady state v base line data.
American journal of hematology 2012;87(3):338.
2012: Samir K Ballas; Carlton Dampier; Deepika S Darbari; Morton F Goldberg; Ward Hagar; Carolyn Hoppe; Muge Kesen; Gerard A Lutty; Ifeyinwa Osunkwo; Winfred C Wang; Punam Malik
Beyond the definitions of the phenotypic complications of sickle cell disease: an update on management.
TheScientificWorldJournal 2012;2012():949535.
2012: Srikanth Nagalla; Samir K Ballas
Drugs for preventing red blood cell dehydration in people with sickle cell disease.
Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online) 2012;7():CD003426.
2011: Kenneth I Ataga; Marvin Reid; Samir K Ballas; Zahida Yasin; Carolyn Bigelow; Luther St James; Wally R Smith; Frederic Galacteros; Abdullah Kutlar; James H Hull; Jonathan W Stocker
Improvements in haemolysis and indicators of erythrocyte survival do not correlate with acute vaso-occlusive crises in patients with sickle cell disease: a phase III randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of the Gardos channel blocker senicapoc (ICA-17043).
British journal of haematology 2011;153(1):92-104.
2011: Samir K Ballas
Defining the phenotypes of sickle cell disease.
Hemoglobin 2011;35(5-6):511-9.
2011: Samir K Ballas
Update on pain management in sickle cell disease.
Hemoglobin 2011;35(5-6):520-9.
2011: Richard W Toner; Laura Pizzi; Brian Leas; Samir K Ballas; Alyson Quigley; Neil I Goldfarb
Costs to hospitals of acquiring and processing blood in the US: a survey of hospital-based blood banks and transfusion services.
Applied health economics and health policy 2011;9(1):29-37.
2010: Samir K Ballas; Robert L Bauserman; William F McCarthy; Oswaldo L Castro; Wally R Smith; Myron A Waclawiw
Hydroxyurea and acute painful crises in sickle cell anemia: effects on hospital length of stay and opioid utilization during hospitalization, outpatient acute care contacts, and at home.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2010;40(6):870-82.
2010: Samir K Ballas
The dark side of the discovery of sickle cell disease in the United States in 1910.
Journal of the National Medical Association 2010;102(11):1100-1.
2010: Samir K Ballas; Robert L Bauserman; William F McCarthy; Myron A Waclawiw
The impact of hydroxyurea on career and employment of patients with sickle cell anemia.
Journal of the National Medical Association 2010;102(11):993-9.
2010: Samir K Ballas; William F McCarthy; Nan Guo; Carlo Brugnara; Gail Kling; Robert L Bauserman; Myron A Waclawiw
Early detection of response to hydroxyurea therapy in patients with sickle cell anemia.
Hemoglobin 2010;34(5):424-9.
2010: Srikanth Nagalla; Samir K Ballas
Drugs for preventing red blood cell dehydration in people with sickle cell disease.
Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online) 2010;(1):CD003426.
2010: Samir K Ballas; Susan Lieff; Lennette J Benjamin; Carlton Dampier; Matthew M Heeney; Carolyn Hoppe; Cage S Johnson; Zora R Rogers; Kim Smith-Whitley; Winfred C Wang; Marilyn J Telen
Definitions of the phenotypic manifestations of sickle cell disease.
American journal of hematology 2010;85(1):6-13.
2009: Samir K Ballas; William F McCarthy; Nan Guo; Laura DeCastro; Rita Bellevue; Bruce A Barton; Myron A Waclawiw
Exposure to hydroxyurea and pregnancy outcomes in patients with sickle cell anemia.
Journal of the National Medical Association 2009;101(10):1046-51.
2008: Ellen B Fung; Paul R Harmatz; Meredith Milet; Vinod Balasa; Samir K Ballas; James F Casella; Lee Hilliard; Abdullah Kutlar; Kenneth L McClain; Nancy F Olivieri; John B Porter; Elliott P Vichinsky
Disparity in the management of iron overload between patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia who received transfusions.
Transfusion 2008;48(9):1971-80.
2007: Ellen B Fung; Paul Harmatz; Meredith Milet; Samir K Ballas; Laura De Castro; Ward Hagar; William Owen; Nancy F Olivieri; Kim Smith-Whitley; Deepika Darbari; Winfred Wang; Elliott Vichinsky
Morbidity and mortality in chronically transfused subjects with thalassemia and sickle cell disease: A report from the multi-center study of iron overload.
American journal of hematology 2007;82(4):255-65.
2006: Lalita Chulamokha; Stephen J Scholand; Jeff M Riggio; Samir K Ballas; David Horn; Joseph A DeSimone
Bloodstream infections in hospitalized adults with sickle cell disease: a retrospective analysis.
American journal of hematology 2006;81(10):723-8.
2006: Roberto Machado; Anastasia Anthi; Martin H Steinberg; Duane Bonds; Vandana Sachdev; Gregory Kato ; Angelo M Taveira-DaSilva; Samir K Ballas; William C Blackwelder; Xiuli Xu; Lori Hunter; Bruce Barton; Myron A Waclawiw; Oswaldo Castro; Mark T Gladwin
N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels and risk of death in sickle cell disease.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2006;296(3):310-8.
2006: Kenneth Epstein; Elaine Yuen; Jeff M Riggio; Samir K Ballas; Stephanie M Moleski
Utilization of the office, hospital and emergency department for adult sickle cell patients: a five-year study.
Journal of the National Medical Association 2006;98(7):1109-13.
2006: Samir K Ballas; Jason K Baxter; Gaye Riddick
Folate supplementation and twinning in patients with sickle cell disease.
American journal of hematology 2006;81(4):296-7.
2006: Samir K Ballas; Franca Barton; Myron A Waclawiw; Paul Steven Swerdlow; James R Eckman; Charles H Pegelow; Mabel Koshy; Bruce A Barton; Duane Bonds
Hydroxyurea and sickle cell anemia: effect on quality of life.
Health and quality of life outcomes 2006;4():59.
2006: Samir K Ballas; Beatrice Files; Lori Luchtman-Jones; Lennette Benjamin; Paul Steven Swerdlow; Lee Hilliard; Thomas Coates; Miguel R Abboud; Slawomir Wojtowicz-Praga; Frans A Kuypers; J Michael Grindel
Secretory phospholipase A2 levels in patients with sickle cell disease and acute chest syndrome.
Hemoglobin 2006;30(2):165-70.
2006: Samir K Ballas; Mary Jane Marcolina
Hyperhemolysis during the evolution of uncomplicated acute painful episodes in patients with sickle cell anemia.
Transfusion 2006;46(1):105-10.
2005: Samir K Ballas
Pain management of sickle cell disease.
Hematology/oncology clinics of North America 2005;19(5):785-802, v.
2005: Samir K Ballas; Margaret Lusardi
Hospital readmission for adult acute sickle cell painful episodes: frequency, etiology, and prognostic significance.
American journal of hematology 2005;79(1):17-25.
2004: Samir K Ballas; Eugene R Viscusi; Kenneth R Epstein
Management of acute chest wall sickle cell pain with nebulized morphine.
American journal of hematology 2004;76(2):190-1.
2004: Samir K Ballas; Beatrice Files; Lori Luchtman-Jones; Lennette Benjamin; Paul Steven Swerdlow; Lee Hilliard; Thomas Coates; Miguel R Abboud; Slawomir Wojtowicz-Praga; J Michael Grindel
Safety of purified poloxamer 188 in sickle cell disease: phase I study of a non-ionic surfactant in the management of acute chest syndrome.
Hemoglobin 2004;28(2):85-102.
2004: Samir K Ballas; Narla Mohandas
Sickle red cell microrheology and sickle blood rheology.
Microcirculation (New York, N.Y. : 1994) 2004;11(2):209-25.
2003: Martin H Steinberg; Franca Barton; Oswaldo Castro; Charles H Pegelow; Samir K Ballas; Abdullah Kutlar; Eugene P Orringer; Rita Bellevue; Nancy Olivieri; James R Eckman; Mala Varma; Gloria Ramirez; Brian Adler; Wally Smith; Timothy Carlos; Kenneth I Ataga; Laura DeCastro; Carolyn Bigelow; Yogen Saunthararajah; Margaret Telfer; Elliott Vichinsky; Susan Claster; susan shurin; Kenneth Bridges; Myron A Waclawiw; Duane Bonds; Michael L Terrin
Effect of hydroxyurea on mortality and morbidity in adult sickle cell anemia: risks and benefits up to 9 years of treatment.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2003;289(13):1645-51.
2003: Martin H Steinberg; Ersi Voskaridou; Abdullah Kutlar; Dimitris Loukopoulos; Mabel Koshy; Samir K Ballas; Oswaldo Castro; Franca Barton
Concordant fetal hemoglobin response to hydroxyurea in siblings with sickle cell disease.
American journal of hematology 2003;72(2):121-6.
2003: Deborah Dean; Lynne Neumayr; Dana M Kelly; Samir K Ballas; Klara Kleman; Shanda Robertson; Rathi V Iyer; Russell E Ware; Mabel Koshy; Wayne R Rackoff; Charles H Pegelow; Peter Waldron; Lennette Benjamin; Elliott Vichinsky
Chlamydia pneumoniae and acute chest syndrome in patients with sickle cell disease.
Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology 2003;25(1):46-55.
2002: Allen R Zeiger; Ashwin A Patkar; Raina Fitzgerald; Allan Lundy; Samir K Ballas; Stephen P Weinstein
Changes in mu opioid receptors and rheological properties of erythrocytes among opioid abusers.
Addiction biology 2002;7(2):207-17.
2002: Samir K Ballas
Sickle cell anaemia: progress in pathogenesis and treatment.
Drugs 2002;62(8):1143-72.
2001: Eugene P Orringer; James F Casella; Kenneth I Ataga; Mabel Koshy; P Adams-Graves; Lori Luchtman-Jones; Ted Wun; M Watanabe; F Shafer; Abdullah Kutlar; Miguel R Abboud; M Steinberg; B Adler; Paul Steven Swerdlow; C Terregino; S Saccente; Beatrice Files; Samir K Ballas; R Brown; Slawomir Wojtowicz-Praga; J M Grindel
Purified poloxamer 188 for treatment of acute vaso-occlusive crisis of sickle cell disease: A randomized controlled trial.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2001;286(17):2099-106.
2001: Samir K Ballas
Sickle cell disease: current clinical management.
Seminars in hematology 2001;38(4):307-14.
2001: Samir K Ballas
Effect of alpha-globin genotype on the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease.
Pediatric pathology & molecular medicine 2001;20(2):107-21.
2001: Samir K Ballas
Iron overload is a determinant of morbidity and mortality in adult patients with sickle cell disease.
Seminars in hematology 2001;38(1 Suppl 1):30-6.
2000: Samir K Ballas; Mary Jane Marcolina
Determinants of red cell survival and erythropoietic activity in patients with sickle cell anemia in the steady state.
Hemoglobin 2000;24(4):277-86.
2000: Samir K Ballas
Hydration of sickle erythrocytes using a herbal extract (Pfaffia paniculata) in vitro.
British journal of haematology 2000;111(1):359-62.
2000: Richard D Moore; S Charache; Michael L Terrin; Franca Barton; Samir K Ballas
Cost-effectiveness of hydroxyurea in sickle cell anemia. Investigators of the Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea in Sickle Cell Anemia.
American journal of hematology 2000;64(1):26-31.
1999: Samir K Ballas; Mary Jane Marcolina; George J Dover; Franca Barton
Erythropoietic activity in patients with sickle cell anaemia before and after treatment with hydroxyurea.
British journal of haematology 1999;105(2):491-6.
1998: Omar Bagasra; Robert M Steiner; Samir K Ballas; O Castro; Geethanjali Dornadula; Stephen Embury; Donald Jungkind; Lisa Bobroski; Abdullah Kutlar; S Burchott
Viral burden and disease progression in HIV-1-infected patients with sickle cell anemia.
American journal of hematology 1998;59(3):199-207.
1998: Samir K Ballas; A Pindzola; C D Chang; R Rubin; S B Weibel; Elizabeth A Manci
Postmortem diagnosis of hemoglobin SC disease complicated by fat embolism.
Annals of clinical and laboratory science 1998;28(3):144-9.
1997: Samir K Ballas; R N Gay
The sickle cell hemolytic transfusion reaction syndrome.
Transfusion 1997;37(10):1099-100; author reply 1100-2.
1997: Samir K Ballas; R N Gay; F F Chehab
Is Hb A2 elevated in adults with sickle-alpha-thalassemia (beta(S)/beta(S); -alpha/-alpha)?
Hemoglobin 1997;21(5):405-50.
1997: KH van Hoeven; J L Wanner; Samir K Ballas
Cytologic diagnosis of fat emboli in peripheral blood during sickle cell infarctive crisis.
Diagnostic cytopathology 1997;17(1):54-6.
1997: Samir K Ballas; S P Cai; T Gabuzda; F F Chehab
Molecular basis of asymptomatic beta-thalassemia major in an African American individual.
American journal of medical genetics 1997;69(2):196-9.
1996: Samir K Ballas
Factitious sickle cell acute painful episodes: a secondary type of Munchausen syndrome.
American journal of hematology 1996;53(4):254-8.
1996: S Charache; Franca Barton; Richard D Moore; Michael L Terrin; M H Steinberg; George J Dover; Samir K Ballas; Robert P McMahon; O Castro; Eugene P Orringer
Hydroxyurea and sickle cell anemia. Clinical utility of a myelosuppressive "switching" agent. The Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea in Sickle Cell Anemia.
Medicine 1996;75(6):300-26.
1995: Samir K Ballas
The sickle cell painful crisis in adults: phases and objective signs.
Hemoglobin 1995;19(6):323-33.
1994: E S Pearlman; Samir K Ballas
When to transfuse blood in sickle cell disease? Lessons from Jehovah's Witnesses.
Annals of clinical and laboratory science 1994;24(5):396-400.
1994: E S Pearlman; Samir K Ballas
False-positive human immunodeficiency virus screening test related to rabies vaccination.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 1994;118(8):805-6.
1994: J E Liu; D J Gzesh; Samir K Ballas
The spectrum of epilepsy in sickle cell anemia.
Journal of the neurological sciences 1994;123(1-2):6-10.
1993: Samir K Ballas; A Delengowski
Pain measurement in hospitalized adults with sickle cell painful episodes.
Annals of clinical and laboratory science 1993;23(5):358-61.
1992: Samir K Ballas; M J Marcolina; M N Crawford
In vitro storage and in vivo survival studies of red cells from persons with the In(Lu) gene.
Transfusion 1992;32(7):607-11.
1992: Samir K Ballas
Munchausen sickle cell painful crisis.
Annals of clinical and laboratory science 1992;22(4):226-8.
1992: S Charache; George J Dover; Richard D Moore; S Eckert; Samir K Ballas; Mabel Koshy; P F Milner; Eugene P Orringer; G Phillips; O S Platt
Hydroxyurea: effects on hemoglobin F production in patients with sickle cell anemia.
Blood 1992;79(10):2555-65.
1992: Samir K Ballas; E D Smith
Red blood cell changes during the evolution of the sickle cell painful crisis.
Blood 1992;79(8):2154-63.
1992: Samir K Ballas; D Park; L Fernandez; T K Hine; Danny L Jue; M H Johnson; W F Moo-Penn
Erythrocytosis secondary to HB Bunbury [alpha 2 beta (2)94(FG1)Asp----Asn].
Hemoglobin 1992;16(4):281-6.
1991: Samir K Ballas; C H Park
Severe hypoxemia secondary to acute sternal infarction in sickle cell anemia.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1991;32(8):1617-8.
1991: Samir K Ballas
Sickle cell anemia with few painful crises is characterized by decreased red cell deformability and increased number of dense cells.
American journal of hematology 1991;36(2):122-30.
1991: Samir K Ballas; C A Talacki; K Adachi; E Schwartz; Saul Surrey; Eric F Rappaport
The Xmn I site (-158, C----T) 5' to the G gamma gene: correlation with the Senegalese haplotype and G gamma globin expression.
Hemoglobin 1991;15(5):393-405.
1990: Samir K Ballas; S M Bator; J P Aubuchon; W L Marsh; D E Sharp; E M Toy
Abnormal membrane physical properties of red cells in McLeod syndrome.
Transfusion 1990;30(8):722-7.
1990: Samir K Ballas
The pathophysiology of hemolytic anemias.
Transfusion medicine reviews 1990;4(3):236-56.
1990: Samir K Ballas
Treatment of pain in adults with sickle cell disease.
American journal of hematology 1990;34(1):49-54.
1990: Doyle M Cummings; Samir K Ballas
Effects of pentoxifylline and metabolite on red blood cell deformability as measured by ektacytometry.
Angiology 1990;41(2):118-23.
1990: C A Talacki; Samir K Ballas
Modified method of exchange transfusion in sickle cell disease.
Journal of clinical apheresis 1990;5(4):183-7.
1990: C A Talacki; Eric F Rappaport; E Schwartz; Saul Surrey; Samir K Ballas
Beta-globin gene cluster haplotypes in Hb C heterozygotes.
Hemoglobin 1990;14(3):229-40.
1989: Samir K Ballas; George J Dover; S Charache
Effect of hydroxyurea on the rheological properties of sickle erythrocytes in vivo.
American journal of hematology 1989;32(2):104-11.
1989: Samir K Ballas
Spectrin autoantibodies in normal human serum and in polyclonal blood grouping sera.
British journal of haematology 1989;71(1):137-9.
1989: Samir K Ballas; C A Talacki; Vijay M Rao; Robert M Steiner
The prevalence of avascular necrosis in sickle cell anemia: correlation with alpha-thalassemia.
Hemoglobin 1989;13(7-8):649-55.
1988: Vijay M Rao; Donald G Mitchell; Robert M Steiner; M D Rifkin; D L Burk; D Levy; Samir K Ballas
Femoral head avascular necrosis in sickle cell anemia: MR characteristics.
Magnetic resonance imaging 1988;6(6):661-7.
1988: Samir K Ballas; J Larner; E D Smith; Saul Surrey; E Schwartz; Eric F Rappaport
Rheologic predictors of the severity of the painful sickle cell crisis.
Blood 1988;72(4):1216-23.
1988: Samir K Ballas; W Kocher
Erythrocytes in Hb SC disease are microcytic and hyperchromic.
American journal of hematology 1988;28(1):37-9.
1987: Samir K Ballas; J Larner; E D Smith; Saul Surrey; E Schwartz; Eric F Rappaport
The xerocytosis of Hb SC disease.
Blood 1987;69(1):124-30.