Category:Acute chest syndrome

A lung disease that involves a vasoocclusive crisis of the pulmonary vasculature seen in patients with sickle cell anemia. The crisis is initiated by a lung infection, and the resulting inflammation and loss of oxygen tension leads to sickling of red cells and further vasoocclusion. The symptoms include fever, pleuritic chest pain, tachypnea, cough, hypoxemia, marked leukocytosis, and diffuse infiltrates on chest radiograph.

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