Sickle cell acute chest syndrome associa
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Lowenthal, Elizabeth A.; Wells, Alan; Emanuel, Peter D.; Player, Rick; Prchal, J
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Acute Chest Syndrome (ACS) continues to be a major source of morbidity and mortality among patients with sickle cell disease. It is characterized by the presence of pleutitic chest pain, fever, raies on lung auscultation, and pulmonary infiltrates on chest X-ray [Castro et ai: Blood 84:643-649, 1994