title: Multiple complications in a sickle cell disease patient: a case report.
abstract: Summary This case report illustrates the multiple complications experienced by a sickle cell anaemia patient. Although he enjoyed fairly good health till age 16 years; he subsequently suffered grade four bilateral femoral head necrosis, cerebella infarct and cerebral atrophy from cumulative effect of repetitive vasoocclussion, recurrent overwhelming septicaemia, fixed flexion deformities and decubitous ulcer as a sequelae of earlier complications. He eventually became bed ridden. Financial constraint seriously compounded these problems. The determinants, of which type of the wide-ranging complications of SCD a particular patient will eventually develop, remain elusive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Haematolgy. University College Hospital, PMB 5116, Ibadan, Nigeria.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Olaniyi