Heart in sickle-cell anemia
Mazaud, R.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 38(2): 189-196
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 723564 Document Number: 125629
Sickle-cell anemia may give heart troubles: heart insufficiency by chronic anemia, pseudo-rhumatic heart, chronic pulmonary heart, coronarian ischemia and cardiomyopathic syndrome. The homo or heterozygotic status and the age are important factors. A rather clear pathogenesis has been built up for these various troubles but therapy has only a limited efficiency.