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Continuous Manual Exchange Transfusion for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: An Efficient Method to Avoid Iron Overload
Published on: March 14, 2017
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COVID-19 pneumonia in a pediatric sickle cell patient requiring red blood cell exchange
Shannon C Walker1, Meghan L Murphy1, Hope Hendricks2
1Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville TN USA.
Clinical Case Reports
|March 26, 2021
Abstract:
Patients with sickle cell disease are already at high risk for respiratory complications, which SARS-CoV-2 can rapidly worsen. The case emphasizes the importance of efficiently maximizing standard therapies in sickle cell patients with COVID-19.
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