Percutaneous balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty was performed on a 19-year-old female who had moderate pulmonary valve stenosis with sickle cell anemia, The patient developed sickle cell crisis resulting in occipital infarction, but she made a good recovery. We describe this case and the methods of red
Sickle cell anemia is a multigene disease: Sickle painful crises, a case in point
β Scribed by Ronald L. Nagel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 580 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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