Chest syndrome
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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Mycoplasma Disease and Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Disease
... 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 Mississippi, Jackson, ...
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Morpho-functional evaluation of lung aeration as a marker of sickle-cell acute chest syndrome severity in the ICU: a prospective cohort study
... countries [2], however patients with SCD are still at risk of early mortality due to acute chest syndrome (ACS) [1]. Half of adult deaths arise in the intensive care unit (ICU), where ACS represents the ...
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Acute Chest Syndrome in Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia: An Audit in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
... Sickle cell anemia is one of the most prevalent genetic diseases worldwide [1] [2]. It frequently poses a task to health care providers for whom the disease can be considered one of the most significant ...
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Improving Care for Children With Sickle Cell Disease/Acute Chest Syndrome
... quality improvement, implementation, guideline development, acute chest syndrome, sickle cell disease.. ABBREVIATIONS.[r] ...
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Extracellular hemin crisis triggers acute chest syndrome in sickle mice
... The prevention and treatment of acute chest syndrome (ACS) is a major clinical concern in sickle cell disease (SCD). However, the mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of ACS remains elusive. We tested the ...
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Outcomes of Acute Chest Syndrome in Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: Predictors of Mortality
... discharge database in United States and represents experiences beyond a single center. The outcomes assessed in this large cohort of patients reflect the impact of advances in medical care in the given time frame. ...
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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
... Acute Chest Syndrome in HbSS was made. PCV was 17%. A chest and upper abdominal ultrasound scan showed no pleural effusion but cardiomegaly, hepatomegaly and enlargement of both ...
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Methadone-Induced Rigid-Chest Syndrome After Substantial Overdose
... Two experienced physicians observed a prolonged period of chest rigidity not accompanied by neck, abdominal, or extremity rigidity. There was no tremor, no preepisode or postepisode suggestion of seizure activity, ...
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Score Predicting Acute Chest Syndrome During Vaso-occlusive Crises in Adult Sickle-cell Disease Patients
... 2013). Secondary acute chest syndrome (ACS), the main severe VOC complication (Platt et al., 1994; Perronne et al., 2002), represented 50% of ACSs in a prospective study, appearing a mean of 2.5 days post- ...
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Plastic Bronchitis: An Unusual Complication Associated With Sickle Cell Disease and the Acute Chest Syndrome
... the chest during pain crisis or to ischemia of the bronchial tree in vasocclusive crisis resulting in ciliary ...aggressive chest physio- therapy and incentive spirometry 19 should ...
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The Acute Chest Syndrome in Cameroonian children living with sickle cell disease
... Results: Twenty one cases of ACS were identified during the study period, from 338 hospitalizations of children with SCD. Ages ranged from 11 months to 16 years with a mean (standard deviation) of 5.5 (3.4) years, and a ...
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The impact of chest compression rates on quality of chest compressions : a manikin study
... quality chest compressions with minimal interruption are essential for successful resuscitation following a cardiac ...of chest compressions is often poor during both training and actual resuscitation ...
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CLINICAL STUDY OF CHEST LESIONS BY MULTI DETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY OF THE CHEST
... This study is based upon 70 patients with various chest pathologies. Majority were of Pulmonary Koch’s (26 cases) which included 18 cases with active & 08 cases with inactive pulmonary T.B. Rest 44 cases ...
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Relevance of chest CT and chest X-ray in patients of blunt trauma
... the chest was motorcycle crash(50%, n =40), pedestrian injury (25%, n = 20), motor vehicle crash (15%, n = 12), and fall (10%, n = 8) ...a chest tube placed prior to CT scan and an additional 20% (n = 16) ...
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Prognostic value of extravascular lung water assessed with lung ultrasound score by chest sonography in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
... tial syndrome, and pulmonary consolidation clearly confirm the diagnosis of ...Moreover, chest CT software has been developed to accurately measure ...
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A rare but treatable cause of recurrent chest pain - Ictal chest pain
... to carbamazepine. It was posited by the authors that the mesial parietal lobe and cingulate cortex were re- sponsible for ictal chest pain, given the paracentral distribution. Involvement in these two areas have ...
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Chest CT examinations in patients presenting with acute chest pain: a pictorial review
... (Dressler syndrome), post-surgical, after irradiation therapy, infectious, sys- temic diseases as rheumatoid arthritis, metabolic disor- ders, malignancy and idiopathic ...
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II. CONFIGURATION OF THE CHEST
... In younger children the growth pattern of the thoracic volume index is dissimilar to an extrapola- tion of the lung volume growth line. Patients with cystic fibrosis have an in- crease i[r] ...
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