Acute chest syndrome

Acute chest syndrome
SpecialtyPulmonology 

Acute chest syndrome is a vaso-occlusive crisis of the pulmonary vasculature commonly seen in people with sickle cell anemia. This condition commonly manifests with a new opacification of the lung(s) on a chest x-ray.[1]

  1. ^ Betty Pace (2007). Renaissance of Sickle Cell Disease Research in the Genome Era. Imperial College Press. pp. 81–. ISBN 978-1-86094-645-5. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
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