Fatal acute splenic sequestration at 4 months of age
Walterspiel, J.N.; Rutledge, J.C.; Bartlett, B.L.
Pediatrics 73(4): 507-508
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-4005 PMID: 6709430 Document Number: 227057
A patient with homozygous sickle cell anemia is the youngest known to have died from acute splenic sequestration crisis. A cord blood screening program might have prevented this infant's death.
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