Clinical presentation of acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease

In this study the records of 45 patients with sickle cell disease involved in 63 presentations of acute chest syndrome at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, the Bahamas, between 1997 and 2001 were examined. Patients were divided into three groups on the basis of age (

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Veröffentlicht in:	Postgraduate medical journal 2004-06, Vol.80 (944), p.346-349
Hauptverfasser:	Taylor, C, Carter, F, Poulose, J, Rolle, S, Babu, S, Crichlow, S
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACS acute chest syndrome Acute Disease Adolescent Adult Age groups Anemia, Sickle Cell - complications Anemias. Hemoglobinopathies Audit Biological and medical sciences Child Child, Preschool Cohort Studies Cough - etiology Diseases of red blood cells Etiology Fever Fever - etiology General aspects Hematologic and hematopoietic diseases Hemoglobin Humans Infant Infections Length of Stay LOS Lung Diseases - etiology Medical Audit Medical sciences Mortality Pain - etiology Patients Retrospective Studies Sickle cell disease Syndrome Variance analysis
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Zusammenfassung:	In this study the records of 45 patients with sickle cell disease involved in 63 presentations of acute chest syndrome at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, the Bahamas, between 1997 and 2001 were examined. Patients were divided into three groups on the basis of age (
ISSN:	0032-5473 1469-0756
DOI:	10.1136/pgmj.2003.012781