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Myocardial injury or infarction associated with fat embolism in sickle cell disease: a report of three cases with survival |
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| Authors: | Dang Nghia C Johnson Cage Eslami-Farsani Mahmoud Haywood L Julian |
| Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, University of California-San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, California, USA. |
| Abstract: | Fat embolism represents a dread complication of sickle cell hemoglobinopathies. We present the details of three cases that, in addition to an acute chest syndrome, had serological and clinical parameters consistent with myocardial damage. A favorable outcome was obtained with judicious use of blood transfusion. |
| Keywords: | sickle cell disease fat embolism exchange transfusion myocardial infarction sickle cell anemia |
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