
#105 Sickle Cell: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Infectious Complications of Sickle Cell Disease
In sickle cell disease, basically any organ you name it can be affected acutely or chronically by sickling. Even in the spleen, early on in life, single cells lead to vascular obstruction and splinic infarction. And then ther are multiple infectious complications based on the fact that they are asponic asiomialitus. The thing that sort of characteristically considered something that is unique among siccl opations, is the prominence of salmanella as an infecting organism in hostumimines al li get plenty of staff too.
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