The lung in sickle cell disease
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Jennifer Knight; Thomas M. Murphy; Iley Browning
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited disorder in African-Americans. Although the primary defect is hematological, the changes in the erythrocytes lead to a vasculopathy with multiorgan injury. The pulmonary complications, i.e., acute chest syndrome and chronic sickle cell lung disease, a