A Child With Sickle Cell Disease and Anomalous Right Coronary Artery

Sickle cell disease in children requiring open heart surgical repair is uncommon and requires specific perioperative interventions to avoid complications from intravascular red cell sickling. We present a rare case of a 14-year-old girl with sickle cell disease and an anomalous right coronary artery...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Annals of thoracic surgery 2007-12, Vol.84 (6), p.2114-2116
Hauptverfasser:	Egrie, Glenn, MD, Woodson, Kristina, MD, Alphonso, Nelson, FRCS, Karl, Tom R., MD
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Anemia, Sickle Cell - complications Anemias. Hemoglobinopathies Biological and medical sciences Cardiology. Vascular system Cardiopulmonary Bypass Cardiothoracic Surgery Coronary heart disease Coronary Vessel Anomalies - surgery Diseases of red blood cells Female Heart Hematologic and hematopoietic diseases Humans Medical sciences Pulmonary Artery - abnormalities Pulmonary Artery - surgery Surgery Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases Surgery of the heart Surgery of the respiratory system
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Zusammenfassung:	Sickle cell disease in children requiring open heart surgical repair is uncommon and requires specific perioperative interventions to avoid complications from intravascular red cell sickling. We present a rare case of a 14-year-old girl with sickle cell disease and an anomalous right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
ISSN:	0003-4975 1552-6259
DOI:	10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.002