Plastic bronchitis, a condition associated with widespread mucous plugging of the tracheobronchial tree, is an increasingly recognised bronchoscopic finding in acute chest syndrome of sickle cell disease. Removal of casts by bronchoscopy is technically challenging. We describe a child with acute chest syndrome where bronchoscopic removal of extensive tracheobronchial plastic casts was facilitat...

About250 000childrenarebornwith sickle cell disease every year. Althoughmost people with the disease live in Africa, where the sickle mutation appeared several thousand years ago, sickle cell disease has become common in the United States and Europe since the migration of African people. About 60 000 people in the United States and 10 000 in the United Kingdom have the disease. In our increasin...

Sickle cell disease represents a spectrum of inherited hemoglobin disorders. The pathophysiology involves abnormalities not just in red blood cells but also vascular endothelium, white blood cell function, coagulation, and inflammatory response. Known sequelae of sickle cell disease include invasive infections, painful episodes, acute chest syndrome, strokes, and chronic pulmonary hypertension....

background although it is life-saving, blood transfusion therapy has resulted in risk for transfusion-transmitted infections (ttis) in the majority of sickle cell anemia being patients. objectives the current study aimed to determine the prevalence of hbv, hcv and different genotypes of hcv among sickle cell anemia (sca) patients in ahvaz city, south-western iran. materials and methods a cross-...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC A spinal cord stimulator is usually used as an electro-modulator for pain treatment. Shealy et al. [1] first reported the use of a spinal cord stimulator in an elderly male suffering with terminal bronchogenic carcinoma and right-sided chest pain in 1967. Since then, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been applied to many disease entities, such as...