Presentation of a case of pneumonia associated with sickle cell disease
Journal Title: Revista Eugenio Espejo - Year 2023, Vol 17, Issue 1
Abstract
Sickle cell anemia or hemoglobin S is a genetic disease caused by the mutation of the HBB gene (11p15.4) on chromosome 11. A case of a 19-year-old Afro-descendant male patient with a fever of 38 to 39°C is, associated with cough, expectoration greenish color, and general malaise of three days of evolution is presented. He was diagnosed with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and indefinite anemia. Radiological studies showed cardiomegaly. Abdominal ultra-sound revealed a normal-sized liver, decreased echogenicity and fine granular echostructure in both kidneys, prominence of the walls of the portal vessels, compression of the renal sinus with poor sinus-parenchyma differentiation, spleen not visible, and pancreas of standard characteris-tic. Thus, it was necessary to corroborate the possible condition of Sicklemia, being confirmed. Antibiotic therapy and parenteral iron administration improved and made discharge possible; however, the affectations in the target organs had already caused the general deterioration of the patient's state of health.
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Rodriguez Alvarez, Leonel
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