Acute splenic sequestration crisis (ASSC) in an adult patient with β-thalassemia sickle cell disease: A life-threatening complication

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 499-500

  Tsikrikas, Spyridon ^a   Sialevris, Konstantinos ^a   Tsochatzis, Emmanuel ^a   Deutsch, Melanie ^a   Vassilopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Vgontza, Niki ^a   Archimandritis, Athanasios J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYUREA; INFUSION FLUID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; OXYGEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE SPLENIC SEQUESTRATION CRISIS; ADULT; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFUSION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; OXYGEN SATURATION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BETA-THALASSEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 42549086414     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-007-0422-3     Document Type: Letter

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