acute chest syndrome

A lung disease that involves a vasoocclusive crisis of the pulmonary vasculature seen in patients with sickle cell anemia. The crisis is initiated by a lung infection, and the resulting inflammation and loss of oxygen tension leads to sickling of red cells and

A lung disease that involves a vasoocclusive crisis of the pulmonary vasculature seen in patients with sickle cell anemia. The crisis is initiated by a lung infection, and the resulting inflammation and loss of oxygen tension leads to sickling of red cells and further vasoocclusion. The disease with symptoms of fever, with symptoms of pleuritic chest pain, with symptoms of tachypnea, with symptoms of cough, with symptoms of hypoxemia, with symptoms of marked leukocytosis, and with symptoms of diffuse infiltrates on chest radiograph.

Also known as: acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease