Acute Chest Syndrome, Avascular Necrosis of Femur, and Pulmonary Embolism All at Once: An Unexpected Encounter in the First-Ever Admission of a Sickle Cell Patient

Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is defined as the radiological appearance of pulmonary infiltrates with fever or respiratory symptoms like chest pain, breathlessness, and cough in a patient with sickle cell disease (SCD). It is also a very common cause of mortality in sickle cell patients, if not identif...

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Autores principales: Annadatha, Akhilesh, Talwar, Dhruv, Acharya, Sourya, Kumar, Sunil, Lahane, Vivek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8489536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34650844
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17656

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8489536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34650844
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17656

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