Abstract

During an episode of pneumonia and multiple pulmonary thromboembolic events, an adult male patient with sickle cell-C hemoglobinopathy developed a severe anemia associated with rapidly increasing splenic size and diminished splenic uptake of technetium Tc 99m sulfur colloid, indicating diminished splenic function due to hypersequestration, a rare and noteworthy phenomenon in adult patients with sickle cell-C disease.

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