Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 17-2005. A 22-year-old woman with back and leg pain and respiratory failure

N Engl J Med. 2005 Jun 9;352(23):2425-34. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059012.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anemia, Sickle Cell / complications*
  • Anemia, Sickle Cell / therapy
  • Back Pain / etiology
  • Bone Marrow / pathology*
  • Bone Marrow Diseases / etiology
  • Bone Marrow Diseases / pathology
  • Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infarction
  • Leg
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung / pathology*
  • Nausea / etiology
  • Pain / etiology
  • Pulmonary Embolism / etiology
  • Pulmonary Embolism / pathology*
  • Radiography
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / etiology*
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / pathology
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / therapy