Sentences with phrase «acute chest syndrome»

Presentations & Publications Senior Research Seminar, St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport, CT) 1996 «Treatment of Failed Hemodialysis Access Sites: Comparison of Surgical Treatment with Thrombolysis / Percutaneous Angioplasty» American College of Physicians, Connecticut Chapter Spring Scientific Session 1996 «Treatment of Failed Hemodialysis Access Sites: Comparison of Surgical Treatment with Thrombolysis / Percutaneous Angioplasty» American College of Physicians, Connecticut Chapter Spring Scientific Session 1995 «Spinal Cord Infarction Secondary to Well Differentiated Lymphocytic Lymphoma» A Case Report American College of Physicians, Connecticut Chapter Spring Scientific Session 1995 «Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Disease» A Case Report

The lower level was also associated with 2.6 - times greater odds of hospitalization for the respiratory illness acute chest syndrome and about four - time greater odds of being hospitalized for fever.

Patients with this mutation are not at all homogeneous in their clinical presentations: some develop principally painful crises with or without bony infarcts; others are prone to hemolytic crises; some develop vasoocclusive crises, including stroke; still others develop acute chest syndrome; while many are phenotypically normal, except for mild anemia.

At the present time, hydroxyurea is the only Food and Drug Administration - approved medication that decreases the number of pain crises and episodes of acute chest syndrome.

«The study indicates that screening for silent strokes in children starting school can lead to early detection and prevention of recurrences as well as reduction in other complications of sickle cell anemia such as acute painful episodes and acute chest syndrome.

Hydroxyurea reduces the impact of the disease by improving the anemia, and reducing the risk of pain events and acute chest syndrome.

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All study participants had acute coronary syndrome, a condition that includes the two types of heart attack — ST - elevation myocardial infarction and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction — or unstable angina, a type of severe chest pain that is due to the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries.

All participants had acute coronary syndrome, a condition that includes the two types of heart attack — ST - elevation myocardial infarction and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction — or unstable angina, a type of severe chest pain that is due to the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries.

Costochondritis, also known as chest wall pain, costosternal syndrome, or costosternal chondodynia, and is an acute and often temporary inflammation of the costal cartilage which is the cartilage that connects each rib to the sternum at what is called the costosternal joint.