Acute Chest Syndrome
Asthma is a risk factor for acute chest syndrome and cerebral vascular accidents in children with sickle cell disease
... Limitations of our study include those inherent in a retro- spective analysis including selection bias, measurement bias and confounding factors. The children who received transfusions for acute chest ...
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Describing acute chest syndrome in children with sickle cell Anaemia
... indicate acute chest syndrome (Miller ...and chest pain (Taylor et ...cough, chest pain, pleural effusion, leukocytosis with multiple lobe involvement are ...
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Extracellular hemin crisis triggers acute chest syndrome in sickle mice
... and acute painful vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC) ...National Acute Chest Syndrome Study Group ...experience acute hemolysis before showing evidence of oxygen desaturation (8, 15, ...
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Mycoplasma Disease and Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Disease
... National Acute Chest Syndrome Study Group: Charles Daeschner (East Carolina University, Greenville, NC), Paula Groncy (Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, CA), Rathi Iyer (University of ...
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Acute Chest Syndrome in Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia: An Audit in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
... [13] Sprinkle, R.H., Cole, T., Smith, S. and Buchanan, G.R. (1996) Acute Chest Syndrome in Children with Sickle Cell Disease. A Retrospective Analysis of 100 Hospitalized Cases. Journal of Pediatric ...
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Role of free radicals in the pathogenesis of acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease
... Acute chest syndrome (ACS) of sickle cell disease (SCD) is characterized pathologically by vaso- occlusive processes that result from abnormal interactions between sickle red blood cells[r] ...
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The Acute Chest Syndrome in Cameroonian children living with sickle cell disease
... the chest X ray, alongside clinical signs and/or symptoms, in keeping with Ballas et ...use, chest pain, cough, wheeze or rales. Patients who did not perform a chest X ray or whose chest X ray ...
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Improving Care for Children With Sickle Cell Disease/Acute Chest Syndrome
... The mainstay of successful treatment for children with SCD with ACS or at risk for ACS is high-quality supportive care. Implementation of a standard- ized approach to care for children at risk for ACS and those with ACS ...
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Plastic Bronchitis: An Unusual Complication Associated With Sickle Cell Disease and the Acute Chest Syndrome
... episodes of ACS in all three patients and asthma in two of the patients. Each patient had continued exacerbation of their ACS and ultimately progressed to respiratory failure requiring intuba- tion and mechanical ...
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Lipid profiles in French West Indies sickle cell disease cohorts, and their general population
... (VOC), acute chest syndrome (ACS) and osteonecrosis (OTN), and may also develop more fre- quently specific complications such as retinopathy and otologic disorders [3, ...
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Pregnancy in Sickle Cell Disease is a Very High-Risk Situation: A Case Control Study
... allows acute complications such as sickle cell vaso-occlusive crises, acute chest syndrome, or severe chronic anemia 6 Maternal death rate due to sickle cell diseases in pregnancy is up to ...
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The Role of Frontline Leadership in Organizational Learning: Evidence from Incremental Business Process Improvement
... All possible variables were discussed and critiqued for this study. Variables used included age, race, gender, hospital inpatient length of stay, and discharging diagnosis. The researcher requested the above variables be ...
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... gene. Acute chest syndrome is a rare complication which is seen in sickle cell patients in ...with acute chest syndrome and massive ...
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Sickle cell disease: wheeze or asthma?
... Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common life-limiting genetic disease among African Americans, affecting more than 100,000 people in the United States [1]. Respiratory disorders in patients with sickle cell disease ...
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome secondary to asymptomatic poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis in a child with sickle cell anemia: a case report
... Children and adults with SCA have a high prevalence (4.01%) and incidence (0.61 per 100 patient-years) of cerebrovascular accidents [9]. In patients with SCA, ischemic strokes were observed to have a bimodal distri- ...
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Epidemiological and clinical study of sickle cell disease at tertiary care centre in Western India
... From history, clinical examination, hematological and biochemical investigation and radiological investigations major systemic manifestations were searched in patients. Figure 4 shows most common systemic manifestation ...
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Prospective evaluation of haemoglobin oxygen saturation at rest and after exercise in paediatric sickle cell disease patients
... A total of 391 patients with sickle cell disease and 63 controls were recruited at three tertiary medical centers: Children’s National Medical Center and Howard University Hospital in Washington DC, and University of ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5395103.pdf
... while in a non-crisis, 'steady state'; they had not experienced an episode of acute chest syndrome in the four weeks preceding enrollment, and had no clinical evidence of congestive heart fail- ure. ...
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Chest sonography: a useful tool to differentiate acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema from acute respiratory distress syndrome
... In many cases chest sonography was performed before intubation and no change was immediately observed after initiation of mechanical ventilation. Changes in consoli- dation areas, usually more evident in the ...
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Extravascular lung water index improves the diagnostic accuracy of lung injury in patients with shock
... Results: All EVLW indices were higher among patients with lung injury and significantly correlated with respiratory parameters. Furthermore, all EVLW indices were significantly higher in nonsurvivors. The use of EVLW ...
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