RT Book, Section
A1 Heeney, Matthew M.
A1 Tubman, Venée N.
A2 Zaoutis, Lisa B.
A2 Chiang, Vincent W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1146117687
T1 Management of Sickle Cell Disease
T2 Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071829281
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146117687
RD 2022/08/18
AB Sickle  cell  disease  (SCD)  is  an  inherited  hemolytic  anemia  that  affects  approximately  100,000  persons  in  the  United  States,  mostly  in  the  African-American  population.  It  is  responsible  for  lifelong  medical  complications  in  most  affected  individuals.  Complications  of  SCD  can  be  divided  into  those  that  are  acute  and  those  that  are  the  result  of  the  chronic  repetitive  vaso-occlusion  of  target  organ  systems  (Table  89-1).  This  chapter  focuses  on  the  acute  complications  that  the  hospitalist  is  likely  to  encounter.