Acute Myocardial Infarction in Sickle Cell Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature

References

• Klinefelter, H. F. (1942). The heart in sickle cell anemia. Am. J. Med. Sci., 203, 34–51.
   Google Scholar
• Higgins, H. H. Jr. (1949). The heart in sickle cell anemia, South Med. J., 42, 39–44.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Henderson, A. B. (1950). Sickle cell anemia: clinical study of fifty-four cases, Am. J. Med., 9, 757–765.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shubin, H., Kaufman, R., Shapiro, M. and Levison, P. E. (1960). Cardiovascular findings in children with sickle cell anemia, Am. J. Cardiol., 6, 875–885.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Uzsoy, N. K. (1964). Cardiovascular findings in patients with sickle cell anemia, Am. J. Cardiol., 13, 320–328.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ng, M. L., Liebman, J., Anslovar, J. and Gross, S. (1967). Cardiovascular findings in children with sickle cell anemia, Dis. Chest., 52, 788–799.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Lindsay, J. Jr., Meshel, J. C. and Patterson, R. H. (1974). The cardiovascular manifestations of sickle cell disease, Arch. Intern. Med., 133, 643–651.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Karayalcin, G., Rosner, F., Kim, K. Y., Chandra, P. and Aballi, A. J. (1975). Sickle cell anemia—clinical manifestations in 100 patients and review of the literature, Am. J. Med. Sci., 269, 51–68.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Falk, R. H. (1982). The heart in sickle cell anemia, Arch. Intern. Med., 142, 1680–1684.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Varat, M. A., Adolph, R. J. and Fowler, N. O. (1972). Cardiovascular effects of anemia, Am. Heart. J., 83, 415–26.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Winsor, T. and Burch, G. (1945). The electrocardiogram and cardiac state in active sickle cell anemia, Am. Heart. J., 29, 685–696.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jones, H. L., Wetzel, F. E. and Black, B. K. (1948). Sickle cell anemia with striking electrocardiographic abnormalities and other unusual features at autopsy, Ann. Intern. Med., 29, 928–935.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lindo, C. L. and Doctor, L. R. (1955). The electrocardiogram in sickle cell anemia, American Heart Journal, 50, 218–224.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gerry, J. L., Baird, M. G. and Fortuin, N. J. (1976). Evaluation of left ventricular function in patients with sickle cell anemia, Am. J. Med., 60, 968–972.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rees, A. H., Stefadouros, M. A. and Strong, W. B. (1978). Left ventricular performance in children with homozygous sickle cell anemia, Br. Heart J., 40, 690–696.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Val-Mejias, J., Lee, W. K. and Weisse, A. B. (1979). Left ventricular performance during and after sickle cell crisis, Am. Heart J., 97, 585–591.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Covarrubias, E. A., Sheikh, M. U. and Solanki, D. L. (1980). Left ventricular function in sickle cell anemia: a non invasive evaluation, South Med. J., 73, 342–344.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Denenberg, B. S., Criner, G. and Jones, R. (1983). Cardiac function in sickle cell anemia, Am. J. Cardiol., 50, 1674–78.
   Google Scholar
• Willens, H. J., Lawrence, C., Frishman, W. H. and Strom, J. A. (1983). A non invasive comparision of left ventricular performance in sickle cell anemia and chronic regurgitation, Clinical Cardiol., 6, 542–548.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Balfour, I. C., Covitz, W., Davis, H., Rao, P. S., Strong, W. B. and Alpert, B. S. (1984). Cardiac size and function in children with sickle cell anemia, Am. Heart J., 108, 345–350.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Covitz, W., Espeland, M., Gallagher, D., Hellenbrand, W., Sanford, L. and Talner, N. (1995). The heart in sickle cell anemia. The Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease (CSSCD), CHEST, 108, 1214–1219.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zimmerman, S. L. and Barnett, R. (1944). Sickle cell anemia simulating coronary occlusion, Ann. Int. Med., 21, 1045–1049.
   Google Scholar
• Oliveira, E. and Gomez-Patino, N. (1963). Falcemic cardiomyopathy. Report of a case, Am. J. Cardiol., 11, 686–688.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rubier, S. and Fleischer, R. (1967). Sickle cell states and cardiomyopathy, Am. J. Cardiol., 19, 867–872.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baroldi, G. (1969). High resistance of the human myocardium to shock and red blood aggregation (sludge), Cardiologia, 54, 271–277.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Gerrt, J. L., Bulkley, B. H. and Hutchins, G. M. (1978). Clinicopathologic analysis of cardiac dysfunction in 52 patients with sickle cell anemia, Am. J. Cardiol., 42, 211–216.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barrett, O., Saunders, D. E. and McFarland, D. E. (1984). Myocardial infarction in sickle cell anemia, Am. J. Hematol, 16, 139–147.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Woodruff, A. W. (1970). Sickle cell anemia with complicating coronary infarction, Proc. R. Soc. Med., 63, 1314.
   Google Scholar
• Martin, C. R., Cogg, C., Tatter, D., Johnson, C. and Haywood, L. J. (1983). Acute myocardial infarction in sickle cell anemia, Arch. Intern. Med., 143, 830–831.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Saad, S. T. O., Arruda, V. R., Junqueira, O. O., Schelini, F. A. and Coelho, O. B. (1990). Acute myocardial infarction in sickle cell anemia associated with severe hypoxia. Postgrad Med. J., 66, 1068–1070.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alpert, B. S., Gilman, P. A. and Strong, W. B. (1981). Hemodynamic and ECG responses to exercise in children with sickle cell anemia, Am. J. Dis. Child, 153, 362–366.
   Google Scholar
• Covitz, W., Eubig, C. and Balfour, I. C. (1983). Exercise induced cardiac dysfunction in sickle cell anemia: a radionuclear study, Am. J. Cardiol., 51, 570–75.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Manno, B. V., Barka, E. R. and Hakki, A. H. (1983). Biventricular function in sickle cell anemia: radionuclide angiographic and thallium-201 scintigraphic evaluation, Am. J. Cardiol., 52, 584–587.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Powars, D., Weidman, J. A., Odom-Maryon, T., Niland, J. and Johnson, C. (1988). Sickle cell chronic lung disease: prior morbidity and the risk of pulmonary failure, Medicine, 67, 66–76.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Norris, S., Johnson, C. S. and Haywood, L. J. (1991). Sickle cell anemia: does myocardial ischemia occur during crisis? J. Nat. Med. Ass., 83, 209–213.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar