High incidence of suicidal ideation in a series of patients with sickle cell disease after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Affiliations

¹ Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy Program, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
² Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
³ Department of Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY.

Adrienne D Mishkin et al. Blood Adv. 2022.

. 2022 Oct 11;6(19):5542-5545.

doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021006752.

¹ Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy Program, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
² Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
³ Department of Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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