“…Functional neurological de®cits persist and become more obvious as the child matures (Hariman et al, 1991;Craft et al, 1993;Bernaudin et al, 1998;Wang et al, 1998a). As young adults, they often die of massive intracranial haemorrhage, adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or complications of transfusion-induced haemochromatosis (Powars et al, 1990a;Cohen et al, 1992;Miller et al, 1992;Platt et al, 1994).…”