Acquired Haemolytic Anaemia

Cross-matching Technique in Acquired Haemolytic Anaemia

W. WEINER (Birmingham) said that, until a short time ago, it was thought that one of the differences between acquired and inherited haemolytic anaemias was the fact that in the former the life span of transfused blood was shortened as against the normal survival time in the latter. It could, however, be shown that the short survival time was due to the fact that incompatible blood had been tran...

Auto-antibodies in acquired haemolytic anaemia.

It is now widely recognized that cases of haemolytic anaemia of spontaneous or endogenous origin may be divided into two broad groups: those determined by a genetical cause resulting in the production of defective red cells, and those not so determined. Among the latter group of acquired haemolytic anaemias are cases in which there is evidence for the presence of antibodies active against the p...

Acute acquired haemolytic anaemia associated with polyagglutination.

Polyagglutination is an abnormality of red cells so that they are aggulutinated by most normal sera, except that from very young infants. Polyagglutination occurs in red cells which have been infected in vitro. Rarely it occurs in vivo, when it has usually been associated with severe bacterial infection. There are very few reported cases where polyagglutinability has led to increased red cell d...

A case of acquired haemolytic anaemia during the early puerperium.

Introduction Acquired haemolytic anaemia arising apparently for the first time during pregnancy or the early puerperium is an uncommon occurrence. Lillie, Gatenby & Moore (1954) described one such case in 4314 pregnancies, Lescher (1942), Bateman, Hutt & Norris (1959) and Jankelowitz, Eckerling & Joshua (1960) each described one case of acute intravascular haemolysis of obscure origin occurring...

Haemolytic anaemia.