Pulmonary infarction without fat or thrombo-embolism in sickle cell anaemia

Abstract

The aetiology of the acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease includes: cardiopathy, lung infection, rib infarct and fat or venous embolism. We report a case where a chest bidimensional ultrasonography coupled to Doppler velocimetry, has helped to relate a chest pain to a pulmonary vaso-occlusive crisis, sometimes evocated rarely proved.