Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

Selected References

Screening for Hemoglobinopathies in Canada

Adapted by Richard B. Goldbloom, OC, MD, FRCPC, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, from the report prepared for the US Preventive Services Task Force by John S. Andrews, MD and Modena E.H. Wilson, MD, MPH

These recommendations were finalized by the Task Force in March 1994

1. Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination: The periodic health examination: 2. Can Med Assoc J 1979; 121: 1193-1254

2. Chui DHK, Waye JS, Chitayat, et al: Screening for thalassemia and sickle hemoglobin. Can J Ob Gyn Wom Hlth Care 1993; 5(3): 453-457

3. Kramer MS, Rooks Y, Johnston D, et al: Accuracy of cord blood screening for sickle hemoglobinopathies: three- to five-year follow-up. JAMA 1979; 241: 485-486

4. Grover R, Shahidi S, Fisher B, et al: Current sickle cell screening program for newborns in New York City, 1979-1980. Am J Public Health 1983; 73: 249-251

5. Githens JH, Lane PA, McCurdy RS, et al: Newborn screening in Colorado: the first ten years. AJDC 1990; 144: 466-470

6. Stein J, Berg C, Jones JA, et al: A screening protocol for a prenatal population at risk for inherited hemoglobin disorders: results of its application to a group of Southeast Asians and blacks. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1984; 150: 333-341

7. Rowley PT, Loader S, Walden ME: Toward providing parents the option of avoiding the birth of the first child with Cooley's anemia: response to hemoglobinopathy screening and counseling during pregnancy. Ann NY Acad Sci 1986; 445: 408-416

8. Alter BP: Advances in the prenatal diagnosis of hematologic diseases. Blood 1984; 64: 329-340

9. Kazazian HH Jr, Boehm CD, Dowling CE: Prenatal diagnosis of hemoglobinopathies by DNA analysis. Ann NY Acad Sci 1985; 445: 337-348

10. Weatherall DJ, Mold J, Thein SL, et al: Prenatal diagnosis of the common haemoglobin disorders. J Med Genet 1985; 22: 422-430

11. Boehm CD, Antonarakis SE, Phillips JA III, et al: Prenatal diagnosis using DNA polymorphisms: report on 95 pregnancies at risk for sickle-cell disease or beta-thalassemia. N Engl J Med 1983; 308: 1054-1058

12. Orkin SH: Prenatal diagnosis of hemoglobin disorders by DNA analysis. Blood 1984; 63: 249-253

13. Goosens M, Dumez Y, Kaplan L, et al: Prenatal diagnosis of sickle-cell anemia in the first trimester of pregnancy. N Engl J Med 1983; 309: 831-833

14. Old JM, Fitches A, Heath C, et al: First-trimester fetal diagnosis for haemoglobinopathies: report on 200 cases. Lancet 1986; 2: 763-767

15. Gaston MH, Verter JI, Woods G, et al: Prophylaxis with oral penicillin in children with sickle cell anemia: a randomized trial. N Engl J Med 1986; 314: 1593-1599

16. Vichinsky E, Hurst D, Earles A, et al: Newborn screening for sickle cell disease: effect on mortality. Pediatrics 1988; 81: 749-755

17. Lipkin M, Fisher L, Rowley PT, et al: Genetic counseling of asymptomatic carriers in a primary care setting: the effectiveness of screening and counseling for beta-thalassemia trait. Ann Intern Med 1986; 105: 115-123

18. Whitten CF, Thomas JF, Nishiura EN: Sickle cell trait counseling: evaluation of counselors and counselees. Am J Hum Genet 1981; 33: 802-816

19. Scriver CR, Bardanis M, Cartier L, et al: Beta-thalassemia disease prevention: genetic medicine applied. Am J Hum Genet 1984; 36: 1024-1038

20. Rucknagel DL: A decade of screening in the hemoglobinopathies: is a national program to prevent sickle cell anemia possible? Am J Ped Hem Onc 1983; 5: 373-377

21. Driscoll MC, Lerner N, Anyane-Yeboa K, et al: Prenatal diagnosis of sickle hemoglobinopathies: the experience of the Columbia University Comprehensive Center for Sickle Cell Disease. Am J Hum Genet 1987; 40: 548-558

22. Rowley PT, Loader S, Sutera CJ, et al: Prenatal screening for hemoglobinopathies: I. A prospective regional trial. Am J Hum Genet 1991; 48: 439-446

23. Ali M, Lafferty J: The clinical significance of hemoglobinopathies in the Hamilton region: a twenty-year review. Clin Invest Med 1992; 15(5): 401-405

24. Cao A, Rosatelli C, Galanello R, et al: The prevention of thalassemia in Sardinia. Clin Gen 1989; 36: 277-285

25. Cao A, Rosatelli C, Galanello R: Population-based genetic screening. Curr Opin Gen Dev 1991; 1: 48-53

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