Coexisting Sickle Cell Anemia and Sarcoidosis: A Management Conundrum!

Sickle cell disease and Sarcoidosis are conditions that are more common in the African American population. In this report we share an unfortunate patient who had hepatic sarcoidosis but could not receive steroids since that precipitated acute liver failure. We have discussed potential therapy optio...

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Autores principales: Nutan, FNU, Gollahalli, Nagesh S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28579850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179545X16685314
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description Sickle cell disease and Sarcoidosis are conditions that are more common in the African American population. In this report we share an unfortunate patient who had hepatic sarcoidosis but could not receive steroids since that precipitated acute liver failure. We have discussed potential therapy options but we need more options that improve mortality.
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spelling pubmed-54280842017-06-02 Coexisting Sickle Cell Anemia and Sarcoidosis: A Management Conundrum! Nutan, FNU Gollahalli, Nagesh S Clin Med Insights Blood Disord Case Report Sickle cell disease and Sarcoidosis are conditions that are more common in the African American population. In this report we share an unfortunate patient who had hepatic sarcoidosis but could not receive steroids since that precipitated acute liver failure. We have discussed potential therapy options but we need more options that improve mortality. SAGE Publications 2017-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5428084/ /pubmed/28579850 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179545X16685314 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Coexisting Sickle Cell Anemia and Sarcoidosis: A Management Conundrum!
title Coexisting Sickle Cell Anemia and Sarcoidosis: A Management Conundrum!
title_full Coexisting Sickle Cell Anemia and Sarcoidosis: A Management Conundrum!
title_fullStr Coexisting Sickle Cell Anemia and Sarcoidosis: A Management Conundrum!
title_full_unstemmed Coexisting Sickle Cell Anemia and Sarcoidosis: A Management Conundrum!
title_short Coexisting Sickle Cell Anemia and Sarcoidosis: A Management Conundrum!
title_sort coexisting sickle cell anemia and sarcoidosis: a management conundrum!
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428084/
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