Comment on: Infertility and treatment-seeking practices among females and males with sickle cell disease in the Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium registry.

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Pediatric Blood & CancerEarly View e30487 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Comment on: Infertility and treatment-seeking practices among females and males with sickle cell disease in the Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium registry Susan Creary, Corresponding Author Susan Creary [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-4730-8139 Division of Heme/Onc/BMT and Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA Correspondence Susan Creary, Division of Heme/Onc/BMT and Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Dr, Columbus, OH 43205, USA. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorLydia H. Pecker, Lydia H. Pecker orcid.org/0000-0002-8371-9752 Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine and Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USASearch for more papers by this authorGwendolyn P. Quinn, Gwendolyn P. Quinn Department of OB-GYN, Division of Medical Ethics Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York, USASearch for more papers by this authorLeena Nahata, Leena Nahata orcid.org/0000-0003-3899-2642 Division of Endocrinology and Center for Biobehavioral Health, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USASearch for more papers by this author Susan Creary, Corresponding Author Susan Creary [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-4730-8139 Division of Heme/Onc/BMT and Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA Correspondence Susan Creary, Division of Heme/Onc/BMT and Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Dr, Columbus, OH 43205, USA. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorLydia H. Pecker, Lydia H. Pecker orcid.org/0000-0002-8371-9752 Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine and Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USASearch for more papers by this authorGwendolyn P. Quinn, Gwendolyn P. Quinn Department of OB-GYN, Division of Medical Ethics Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York, USASearch for more papers by this authorLeena Nahata, Leena Nahata orcid.org/0000-0003-3899-2642 Division of Endocrinology and Center for Biobehavioral Health, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 08 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc.30487Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. 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