Sickle-cell disease echocardiography or ultrasound

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Shyam Patel [2]

Overview

Echocardiography and ultrasound have limited diagnostic value in sickle cell disease.

Echocardiography

There are no echocardiography findings associated with sickle cell disease. However, an echocardiography may be helpful in the diagnosis of complications of sickle cell disease, which include:^[1]

Pulmonary hypertension due to vaso-occlusive crisis
heart failure

References

↑ Potoka KP, Gladwin MT (2015). “Vasculopathy and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease”. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 308 (4): L314–24. doi:10.1152/ajplung.00252.2014. PMC 4329471. PMID 25398989.

[pmid25398989-1] Potoka KP, Gladwin MT (2015). “Vasculopathy and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease”. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 308 (4): L314–24. doi:10.1152/ajplung.00252.2014. PMC 4329471. PMID 25398989.

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