Cold agglutinins: fending off the attack

Platelet cold agglutinins.

A “cold” platelet agglutinin is described reacts only at temperatures below 34#{176}C. which is present in plasma and serum, It agglutinates homologous and autois greater than 100,000 in molecular logous platelets but appears to have no weight, appears to be a protein of the imeffect on in vivo platelet function. It is munoglobulin type, is adsorbed by plateseen in patients with systemic diseas...

How I manage cold agglutinins.

From the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Address reprint requests to: W. John Judd, FIBMS, MIBiol, Professor of Immunohematology, Department of Pathology, UH-2G332, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0054; e-mail: [email protected]. Received for publication November 2, 2005; accepted No...

Cold agglutinins in the West African soldier.

I am grateful to Major-General J. Huston, Q.H.S., F.R.C.S., Director of Surgery, for his advice and encouragement and to Captain G. Tate, R.A.M.C., and Mr. A. E. Pridham, for their help. REFERENCES FINNEY, J. M. J., & HANRAHAN, E. M. (1930). Ann. Surg., 92, 620. GOLlGHER, J. C., MOIR, P. J. & WRIGLEY, J. H. (1956). Lancet, 1, 220. McDoNALD, O. G., GILLESPIE, M. G. & LA BREE, R. H. (1953). A.M.A...

Cold agglutinins accompanying Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.

Cold Agglutinins. v. Deterioration of Cold Isohemagglutinins on Storage.