Opioid-induced Sickle Cell Crisis with Multiple, Life-threatening Complications.

Authors

Ashley Griswold Haggerty
Andrew L. Koons, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Gillian A. Beauchamp MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Matthew D. Cook DO, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Robert D. Cannon DO, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Kenneth D. Katz MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow

Publication/Presentation Date

8-27-2020

Abstract

The risk of opioid use disorder among patients with sickle cell disease who are treated with chronic opioids remains unclear, but the complications associated with opioid use and overdose can be accentuated in those with sickle cell disease. In this case report, we describe a 13-year-old girl with sickle cell disease who presented to the emergency department after a morphine overdose causing renal infarction, acute kidney injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.

Volume

120

Issue

11

First Page

770

Last Page

773

ISSN

1945-1997

Published In/Presented At

Haggerty, A. G., Koons, A., Beauchamp, G., Cook, M. D., Cannon, R. D., & Katz, K. D. (2020). Opioid-Induced Sickle Cell Crisis With Multiple, Life-threatening Complications. The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 120(11), 770–773. https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.2020.125

Disciplines

Emergency Medicine | Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

32857136

Department(s)

Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics Residents

Document Type

Article