Management of painful sickle cell crisis in pregnancy

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP
Maqbool Alam, Mohammad Saqib

Abstract

A case of sickle cell disease crisis is described in a Saudi patient at 28 weeks of gestation. She was successfully managed with intravenous fluids, oxygen, opiates and blood transfusion.

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