Sickle Chest Syndrome
Sickle chest syndrome is the severe complication of sickle cell anemia. The condition causes severe chest pain and associated with symptoms such as fever, sputum production, cough, shortness of breath with low blood oxygen levels.
Abnormalities on chest X-rays represent either pneumonia and the death of lung tissue. Moreover, the long-term prognosis for patients with sickle chest syndrome is worse than for those who have not had it.