Cold agglutinins in infectious mononucleosis and heterophil-antibody- negative mononucleosis-like syndromes

Cold agglutinins in infectious mononucleosis and heterophil-antibody-negative mononucleosis-like syndromes.

Cold agglutinins (CA) were evaluated prospectively in patients with various mononucleosis syndromes and in a large control group. Cold agglutinins with anti-i specificity were seen mainly in heterophil-positive or -negative Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced infectious mononucleosis (31.8% of cases). Unclassified CA with equal reactivity against cord and adult erythrocytes were seen in 56 of 150 ...

Cold urticaria and infectious mononucleosis in children.

Physical urticaria includes a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by the development of urticarial lesions and/or angioedema after exposure to certain physical stimuli. The authors present the case of a child with severe acquired cold urticaria secondary to infectious mononucleosis. Avoidance of exposure to cold was recommended; prophylactic treatment with ketotifen and cetirizine wa...

Pseudohyperkalaemia and infectious mononucleosis.

Pseudohyperkalaemia is described from a patient with infectious mononucleosis. The in vitro release of potassium was associated with clotting and all the blood cells may have been involved.

Infectious Mononucleosis and Porphyria

LIVER involvement in infectious mononucleosis is a well-recognised entity usually causing "hepatitis" or a hepato-cellular dysfunction. have reported a focal infiltration of mononuclear cells with reticulocyte proliferation and necrosis, and in fact one series of fifteen cases (Cohn and Lidman) all showed impairment of the liver as judged by abnormal biochemistry. Sherlock (1958) states that th...

Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis).