Acute chest syndrome shows up in about one-third of people with SCD. If you get it once, you have an 80% chance of getting it again. Because the symptoms could be caused by other sicknesses, many ...

A relatively new accelerated diagnostic protocol is ... way to determine which patients with acute chest pain are low-risk for acute cardiac syndrome," said Simon A. Mahler, M.D., associate ...

The acute chest syndrome is the leading cause of death among patients with sickle cell disease. Since its cause is largely unknown, therapy is supportive. Pilot studies with improved diagnostic ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is responsible for the ... linked patients who did not meet a sufficient number of criteria to satisfy the case definition. Given the lack of ...

Thirteen days later, the patient was evaluated for chest pain in the ED, and a quantitative troponin level measured 0.07 ng/mL. He subsequently underwent diagnostic coronary angiography and was ...

Background: An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS ... We examined the results of all diagnostic laboratory tests used in 117 patients admitted to hospitals in Toronto who met the ...

Two posters presented at the CHEST 2024 annual meeting highlighted significant disparities in acute coronary syndrome care and ... likely to undergo crucial diagnostic interventions, like coronary ...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS ... doctors may recommend diagnostic tests to determine the severity of the condition, including a chest X-ray, sputum culture to identify the pathogen ...