[Cardiovascular pathology in sickle cell anemia].

The author, in the light of 14 cardiovascular pathology cases among patients affected by sickle cell disease, itemizes the following data: Cardiovascular pathology in sickle cell disease can be a preoccupation not only among homozygotes but also among heterozygotes. The clinical polymorphism of this pathology concern not only the common anemia heart disease and the type of sickle cell heart disease what looks like a rheumatic heart disease, but also includes cases of cor pulmonale among young patients, sickle cell cardiomyopathy, and myocardial infarction among young. The sickle cell disease area, which outstrips the borders of the traditional african "sickle cell belt" requires that all practitioners be widely informed of the sometimes disconcerting polymorphism of this cardiovascular pathology which has a fairly particular etiology.