Acute chest syndrome in pregnant women with hemoglobin SC disease
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Acute Chest Syndrome in Pregnant Women with Hemoglobin SC Disease
Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is a severe pulmonary complication in pregnant women with sickle cell disease (SCD). Between January 1998 and December 2002, ACS occurred in 4 of 286 pregnant women with SCD in Bahrain (1.2%), and it was associated with two maternal deaths. In the United States, 10 pregnant women (0.06%) were diagnosed with ACS out of 17,952 deliveries in women with SCD from 2000 to 2...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1807-5932
DOI: 10.1590/s1807-59322009000900015