Severe Acute Chest Syndrome in a Sickle Cell Patient That Required Repeated Exchange Transfusion

Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). ACS usually presents in a more severe form in adults older than 20 years. High clinical suspicion should be maintained in SCD patients who presents with painful crises. This c...

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Autores principales: Saleh, Mohammed, Asemota, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7929936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680608
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13066
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description Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). ACS usually presents in a more severe form in adults older than 20 years. High clinical suspicion should be maintained in SCD patients who presents with painful crises. This case report presents an interesting severe form of ACS that, quite unusually, required repeated exchanged blood transfusion to achieve clinical improvement.
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spelling pubmed-79299362021-03-05 Severe Acute Chest Syndrome in a Sickle Cell Patient That Required Repeated Exchange Transfusion Saleh, Mohammed Asemota, Joseph Cureus Internal Medicine Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). ACS usually presents in a more severe form in adults older than 20 years. High clinical suspicion should be maintained in SCD patients who presents with painful crises. This case report presents an interesting severe form of ACS that, quite unusually, required repeated exchanged blood transfusion to achieve clinical improvement. Cureus 2021-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7929936/ /pubmed/33680608 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13066 Text en Copyright © 2021, Saleh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Severe Acute Chest Syndrome in a Sickle Cell Patient That Required Repeated Exchange Transfusion
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title_fullStr Severe Acute Chest Syndrome in a Sickle Cell Patient That Required Repeated Exchange Transfusion
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title_short Severe Acute Chest Syndrome in a Sickle Cell Patient That Required Repeated Exchange Transfusion
title_sort severe acute chest syndrome in a sickle cell patient that required repeated exchange transfusion
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7929936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680608
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