Fat emboli unleashed: An exceptional etiology of encephalitis in sickle cell disease

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 939-941

  Loupy, Alexandre ^a   Laissy, J P ^a   Klein, I ^a   Bachir, D ^b   Bouadma, L ^a   Wolff, M ^a   Regnier, B ^a   Pease, S ^c  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^c BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; BONE NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FAT EMBOLISM; HEADACHE; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; MYDRIASIS; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STUPOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BONE DISEASES; EMBOLISM, FAT; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NECROSIS;

EID: 53549127542     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-008-0491-y     Document Type: Letter

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