#: is vaso-occlusive crisis (VOS) requiring hospitalization
ACS is acute chest syndrome
*: cerebral vasculopathy (any time) has been defined as high stroke risk as previously done 5
$ : predicted values are those of Caucasians
Figure 1. Description of the changes in DLCO and its components between the two visits.
The individual changes (lines) and population changes (box and whisker plots show median, 25 and 75th percentiles, and 10 and 90th percentiles) from visit 1 to visit 2 of KCO, % predicted (upper left panel), of corrected KCO, % predicted (upper right panel), of VA, % predicted (lower left panel) and corrected DLCO, % predicted (lower right panel). The bold dotted lines are medians.