| Metadata | |
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| ID | DOID:1584 |
| Name | acute chest syndrome |
| Definition | A lung disease that involves a vasoocclusive crisis of the pulmonary vasculature seen in patients with sickle cell anemia. The crisis is initiated by a lung infection, and the resulting inflammation and loss of oxygen tension leads to sickling of red cells and further vasoocclusion. The disease has_symptom fever, has_symptom pleuritic chest pain, has_symptom tachypnea, has_symptom cough, has_symptom hypoxemia, has_symptom marked leukocytosis, and has_symptom diffuse infiltrates on chest radiograph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_chest_syndrome |
| Xrefs |
SNOMEDCT_US_2023_03_01:372146004 |
| Subsets |
NCIthesaurus |
| Synonyms |
acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease [EXACT] |
| Parent Relationships |
is_a lung disease |