[Acute thrombosis of the brachial artery and beta-thalassemia-sickle cell anemia]. / Thrombose aiguë de l'artère humérale et beta-thalasso-drépanocytose.

The authors report about one case of left branchial arterial thrombosis in a 6-year-old child with thalassemia-sickle cell disease. In their opinion, although this hemoglobinopathy usually causes microthrombosis, its existence at the same time as that of the brachial thrombosis does not seem to be a coincidence. The actual origin of this disease remains to be found, as well as the role that thrombocytosis may play. The authors emphasize the relative rarity of thrombolytic arterial diseases in African Negroes and advise practitioners to recognize them, because their diagnosis, often established late in our climates, has severe consequences.