Fatal small-bowel necrosis and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease.
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Hammond, TG; Mosesson, MW
Published in: Arch Intern Med
February 1989
Initial enthusiasm for the use of vasodilators to improve pulmonary hemodynamics and symptomatic status in pulmonary hypertension of diverse etiologies has been tempered by the high incidence of serious complications, especially hypotension. However, the unrelenting hypoxia of pulmonary hypertension without treatment and the improved pulmonary hemodynamics and symptomatic states of some patients during vasodilator therapy provide the rationale for a therapeutic test of vasodilators in hemodynamically monitored patients. We report that vasodilator therapy in a patient with severe hypoxia due to pulmonary hypertension and sickle cell crisis was fatally complicated by hypotension and extensive small-bowel infarction.
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Arch Intern Med
ISSN
0003-9926
Publication Date
February 1989
Volume
149
Issue
2
Start / End Page
447 / 448
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Necrosis
- Male
- Intestine, Small
- Infarction
- Hypotension
- Hypertension, Pulmonary
- Hydralazine
- Humans
- General & Internal Medicine
- Anemia, Sickle Cell
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Hammond, T. G., & Mosesson, M. W. (1989). Fatal small-bowel necrosis and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease. Arch Intern Med, 149(2), 447–448.
Hammond, T. G., and M. W. Mosesson. “Fatal small-bowel necrosis and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease.” Arch Intern Med 149, no. 2 (February 1989): 447–48.
Hammond TG, Mosesson MW. Fatal small-bowel necrosis and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease. Arch Intern Med. 1989 Feb;149(2):447–8.
Hammond, T. G., and M. W. Mosesson. “Fatal small-bowel necrosis and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease.” Arch Intern Med, vol. 149, no. 2, Feb. 1989, pp. 447–48.
Hammond TG, Mosesson MW. Fatal small-bowel necrosis and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease. Arch Intern Med. 1989 Feb;149(2):447–448.
Published In
Arch Intern Med
ISSN
0003-9926
Publication Date
February 1989
Volume
149
Issue
2
Start / End Page
447 / 448
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Necrosis
- Male
- Intestine, Small
- Infarction
- Hypotension
- Hypertension, Pulmonary
- Hydralazine
- Humans
- General & Internal Medicine
- Anemia, Sickle Cell