Acute
pulmonary diseases in
patients with sickle
cell anaemia are usually diagnosed as
pneumonia, but in our experience their rate of resolution and
clinical course is different from
pneumonia occuring in
patients with normal haemoglobins. To confirm this we analysed the
clinical course of these clinical episodes in a group of
patients with sickle
cell anaemia and compared them with a
control group of
patients with acute
lobar pneumonia (AU)