Look into my eyes: An unusual first presentation of sickle cell disease

Am J Hematol. 2017 Sep;92(9):968-971. doi: 10.1002/ajh.24787. Epub 2017 Jun 9.

Authors

Rupali Sood¹, Kim Jiramongkolchai¹, Michael Streiff², Christopher Gonzalez³, Satish Shanbhag², Sophie Lanzkron², J Fernando Arevalo¹, Rakhi Naik²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Consciousness Disorders / etiology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological
Embolism, Fat / diagnostic imaging
Embolism, Fat / etiology*
Emergencies
Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood
Female
Ferritins / blood
Heterozygote
Humans
Infarction / diagnostic imaging
Infarction / etiology*
Middle Aged
Retinal Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Retinal Diseases / etiology*
Retinal Vessels / diagnostic imaging*
Sickle Cell Trait / blood
Sickle Cell Trait / complications*
Sickle Cell Trait / genetics
Stroke / diagnosis
Vasculitis / diagnosis
beta-Thalassemia / blood
beta-Thalassemia / complications
beta-Thalassemia / diagnosis*
beta-Thalassemia / genetics

Substances

Ferritins

Grants and funding

K08 HL125100/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States