Hospitalization Events among Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease in Basra, Iraq

Table 2

Causes of hospital admission.

Cause	Admitted patients		Hospitalization events
	Number	%	Number	%
Acute painful crisis	104	65	175	73.84
ACS/pneumonia	19	11.88	19	8.02
ASSC	13	8.13	15	6.32
Infection
Urinary tract infection	8	5	10	4.23
Hepatitis A	4	2.5	4	1.69
Gastroenteritis	3	1.88	4	1.69
Fever	2	1.25	2	0.84
Cervical lymphadenitis	2	1.25	2	0.84
Bleeding due to hypersplenism	2	1.25	3	1.27
AVN	1	0.63	1	0.42
Stroke	1	0.63	1	0.42
Neuroblastoma	1	0.63	1	0.42
Total	160	100	237	100

ACS: acute chest syndrome, ASSC: acute splenic sequestration crises, and AVN: avascular necrosis.