Clinical features of pulmonary lesions in sickle cell anaemia

ABSTRACT

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)