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A Precision Medicine Tool for Measurement and Monitoring of Hemoglobin S in Sickle Cell Disease Patients Receiving Transfusion Therapy
An Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Sickle Cell Anemia
Marissa D Marolf1, Manu Chaudhary, Sheldon L Kaplan
1From the Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, *Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; and †Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas.
Abstract:
We present a case of hepatic abscess in a transfusion-dependent 16-year-old patient with sickle cell disease. There have been 10 such cases in sickle cell disease patients reported, with the last report published greater than a decade ago. The diagnosis of hepatic abscess merits consideration in sickle cell disease patients presenting with fever without a source and/or abdominal pain.

