Fatal acute splenic sequestration at 4 months of age.
A patient with homozygous sickle cell anemia is the youngest known to have died from acute splenic sequestration crisis. A cord blood screening program might have prevented this infant's death.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality