Acute Clinical Events in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease: Epidemiology and Treatment

Abstract

Sickle cell disease is a hereditary illness of high prevalence in black population 20.3 (15-53) and the most frequent clinical event was acute painful episode (73.5%). Mean length of stay was significantly higher in admissions caused by different reasons than acute painful episode (p < 0.001), in those with chronic renal failure (p = 0.006) or with bacterial infection (p = 0.002). The number of deaths was higher in admissions with bacterial infection (p = 0.049) or chronic renal failure (p = 0.014). Gram-ne…