Virus Pneumonia with Increased Cold Agglutinins [Abridged]

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. Vi. Agglutinins for an Indifferent Streptococcus in Primary Atypical Pneumonia and in Other Conditions and Their Relation to Cold Isohemagglutinins.

Cold agglutinins accompanying Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.

Paediatric cardiac surgery in a patient with cold agglutinins.

Cold agglutinins (CAs) lead to organ thrombosis or haemolysis due to increased blood viscosity and red blood cell clumping when blood temperature drops below the thermal amplitude for haemagglutination. Although it is well known that CAs are particularly relevant to adult cardiac surgery with hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), paediatric cardiac surgery with congenital heart disease and ...