Recurrent Viral Infections Complicated with Cold Agglutinin Disease after Splenectomy for Thrombocytopenia

Recurrent Viral Infections Complicated with Cold Agglutinin Disease after Splenectomy for Thrombocytopenia

Cold agglutinin disease.

Cold agglutinin disease is a rare and poorly understood disorder affecting 15% of patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia. We reviewed the clinical and pathologic features, prognosis, and management in the literature and describe our institutional experience to improve strategies for accurate diagnosis and treatment. Retrospective analysis identified 89 patients from our institution with cold...

Transient cold agglutinin disease with mycoplasma infection.

Cold agglutinins are autoantibodies and are often present in the sera of healthy individuals. They assume importance when the thermal reactivity of these antibodies approaches body temperature. This communication describes a case of cold hemagglutinin disease with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection detected during routine laboratory investigations. The patient was managed conservatively.

Splenectomy for immune thrombocytopenia.

As with most reports of splenectomy for immune thrombocytopenia, the recent study claiming efficacy of splenectomy for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related thrombocytopenia is uncontrolled, and combines responses of more and less severely thrombocytopenic patients.' In addition, important information is omitted. What were the mean platelet count increases, partial versus complete response...

Cold Agglutinin Disease; A Laboratory Challenge

INTRODUCTION Autoimmune haemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a complex process characterized by an immune reaction against red blood cell self-antigens. The analysis of specimens, drawn from patients with cold auto-immune hemolytic anemia is a difficult problem for automated hematology analyzer. This paper was written to alert technologists and pathologists to the presence of cold agglutinins and its ef...