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Finding Cures. Saving Children.
Banu Aygun, MD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Departments
Hematology
Contact Information
Banu Aygun, MD
Hematology
MS 800, Room S4039
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: banu.aygun@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-6411
FAX: (901) 595-5696
Education
MD - Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey (1992)
Research Interests
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Sickle cell disease
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Iron overload
Selected Publications
Yates A, Mortier N, Hankins JS, Aygun B, Ware RE. Simultaneous acute splenic sequestration and transient aplastic crisis in children with sickle cell disease. Pediatric Blood and Cancer May 5, 2009 (Epub ahead of print).
Aygun B, McMurray MA, Schultz WH, Kwiatkowski JL, Hilliard L, Alvarez O, Heeney M, Kalinyak K, Lee MT, Miller S, Helms RW, Ware RE for the SWiTCH Trial Investigators. Chronic transfusion practice for children with sickle cell anemia and stroke. British Journal of Haematology May;145(4):524-8, 2009.
Hankins J, Aygun B. Pharmacotherapy in sickle cell disease-state of the art and future prospects. British Journal of Haematology May;145(3):296-308, 2009.
Apollonsky N, Shende A, Ouansafi I, Brody J, Atlas M, Aygun B. Transient myeloproliferative disorder in neonates with and without Down syndrome: a tale of 2 syndromes. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nov; 30(11):860-4, 2008.
Singh SA, Koumbourlis AC, Aygun B. Resolution of chronic hypoxemia in pediatric sickle cell patients after treatment with Hydroxyurea. Pediatr Blood Cancer 50:1258-1260, 2008.
Aygun B, Karakas SP, Leonidas J, Valderrama E, Karayalcin G. Reliability of splenic index to assess splenic involvement in pediatric Hodgkin’s disease. Journal of Pediatric Hematology / Oncology 26 (1):74-6, 2004.
Aygun B, Kimpo M, Lee T, Valderrama E, Leonidas J, Karayalcin G. An adolescent with ovarian osteosarcoma arising in cystic teratoma: a case report and review of the literature. Journal of Pediatric Hematology / Oncology 25(5):410-413, 2003.
Aygun B, Padmanabhan S, Paley C, Chandrasekaran V. Clinical significance of allo- and autoantibodies in transfused sickle cell patients. Transfusion 42(1):37-43, 2002.
Wang M, Liu YE, Ni J, Aygun B, Goldberg ID, Shi YE. Induction of mammary differentiation by MRG that interacts with ω–3 fatty acid on growth inhibition of breast cancer cells. Cancer Research 60:6482-7, 2000.
Karaosmanoglu T, Aygun B, Wade PR, Gershon MD. Regional differences in the number of neurons in the myenteric plexus of the guinea pig small intestine and colon: An evaluation of markers used to count neurons. The Anatomical Record 244(4):470-80, 1996.
Karaosmanoglu KT, Muftuoglu S, Dagdeviren A, Durgun B, Aygun B, Ors U. Morphological changes in the myenteric plexus of rat ileum after transection and end-to-end anastomosis. Journal of Anatomy 188:323-331, 1996.
Ozyar E, Zorlu AF, Gurkaynak M, Akyol FH, Aygun B, Atahan IL. Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas of Waldeyer's Ring: Treatment Results. Turkish Journal of Hematology-Oncology IV(2):69-73, 1994.
Last update: June 2009
