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GEN: Patients with Sickle Cell Disease Should Be Screened For Pulmonary HypertensionFrom: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)Fri Mar 5 06:48:10 2004
In this week's BMJ - People with sickle cell disease should be screened for pulmonary hypertension Scott Gottlieb New York Pulmonary hypertension has been identified as a major risk factor for death in adults with sickle cell disease, and all people with the disease should be screened for this complication, a new study says. Almost a third of adult patients with sickle cell disease who were screened with Doppler echocardiography were found to have moderate to severe pulmonary hypertension that had not previously been detected ( New England Journal of Medicine 2004;350: 886-95[Abstract/Free Full Text]). The researchers, from the US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and the Howard University Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Washington, DC, said the findings were so striking that all patients with sickle cell disease should be regularly screened. In addition, they said, patients with mild to moderate pulmonary hypertension should have the condition treated, because the increased risk of death seems to be high even in less severe cases. art
-- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker
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