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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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Sickle Cell Crisis Mimicking Severe Decompression Sickness in a Recreational SCUBA Diver
CS Mohanty1, SS Mohapatra2, Rohit Verma3
1 Cl Spl (Marine Med), SNM, INHS Asvini, Colaba Mumbai, India
2 CO, INHS Dhanvantari, India
3 Cl Spl (Marine Medicine), SNM INHS Asvini, Colaba, Mumbai, India
Correspondence Address:
C S Mohanty
Cl Spl (Marine Med), SNM, INHS Asvini, Colaba Mumbai
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0975-3605.204475
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SCUBA diving is an increasingly popular recreational sport across the globe and normally conducted by trained diving instructors. Increased commercialization, inadequate professional knowledge/training and poor compliance to the existing safety guidelines may be the contributing factors responsible for accidents related to SCUBA diving. We present a rare case of vaso-occlusive sickle cell crisis mimicking Decompression S
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