Score Predicting Acute Chest Syndrome During Vaso-occlusive Crises in Adult Sickle-cell Disease Patients

Score Predicting Acute Chest Syndrome During Vaso-occlusive Crises in Adult Sickle-cell Disease Patients

Background: Vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC), hallmark of sickle-cell disease (SCD), is the first cause of patients' Emergency-Room admissions and hospitalizations. Acute chest syndrome (ACS), a life-threatening complication, can occur during VOC, be fatal and prolong hospitalization. No predictive...

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Main Authors: Pablo Bartolucci, Anoosha Habibi, Mehdi Khellaf, Françoise Roudot-Thoraval, Giovanna Melica, Anne-Sophie Lascaux, Stéphane Moutereau, Sylvain Loric, Orianne Wagner-Ballon, Jugurtha Berkenou, Aline Santin, Marc Michel, Bertrand Renaud, Yves Lévy, Frédéric Galactéros, Bertrand Godeau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-08-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Subjects:
Sickle cell disease
Vaso-occlusive crisis
Acute chest syndrome
Score
Prospective study
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396416302961

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