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Sickle cell crisis

Prevalence
Clinical features
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis
Clinical features

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  • fever and rigors c

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  • Fever is common (42% of patients with a crisis), c , but few have an infection (1.8% of patients with acute chest syndrome have bacteraemia) c

  

 

Expiry date: May 2004
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author    CM  Ball, RS Phillips
Reviewer   G   Serjeant
CAT Writer     CM  Ball, N  Shenker