We identified 3 patients with autoimmune myelofibrosis (AM) lacking American Rheumatism Association criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). They had 1 or 2 cytopenias and lacked serologic evidence for SLE. Autoimmune features included psoriatic arthritis and positive direct Coombs test (DCT) result, DCT-positive autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and synovitis with polyclonal hypergammaglobu...

Tuberculosis has a broad array of manifestations. Hemolytic anemia is a rare cause of tuberculosis associated anemia. It is important to recognize given its severe implications. An 18-year-old teenager with a confirmed diagnosis of tuberculosis associated with a positive direct coombs test and anemia, responsive to anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy without the use of corticosteroids is presented. ...

The calculating method for fuel consumption (FC) was put forward and calibrated and the characteristics of the fuel consumption on intersections were analyzed based on 18 groups of vehicular operating data which were acquired from the test experiment of a single vehicle along the urban arterial roads in Harbin, China. The results obtained show that 50.36% of the fuel consumption for the test ve...

THORNLEY, Wilson, Hormaeche, Oates and Coombs (1979) used a method of solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) devised for brucella antigens (Wilson, Thornley and Coombs, 1977) to detect gonococcal antigens in a buffer system. When this test was used to detect gonococcal antigens in urine samples, many were found to be strongly inhibitory. This paper describes a study of some of the properties of the...

Varicella is usually benign exanthematous disease, which primarily affects children. The common complications are bacterial infection of skin eruptions, pneumonia, cerebellar ataxia, hepatitis, thrombocytopenia and arthritis [1]. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a rare complication of varicella and only few cases are reported [2-5]. Overall the incidence of AIHA in children is as low as 0....

It was shown by Wiener (1944) that some human a,nti-Rh sera contained incomplete antibodies which combined with but did not agglutinate the corresponding red cells. They appeared to be more avid than agglutinating antibodies, so that, if the two kinds of antibody co-existed in the same serum, the incomplete or blocking antibody might account for failure of agglutination or for a zone of inhibit...

In efforts to discover disease mechanisms and improve clinical diagnosis of tumors, it is useful to mine profiles for informative genes with definite biological meanings and to build robust classifiers with high precision. In this study, we developed a new method for tumor-gene selection, the Chi-square test-based integrated rank gene and direct classifier (χ(2)-IRG-DC). First, we obtained the ...

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia is characterized by shortened red blood cell survival and a positive Coombs test. The responsible autoantibodies may be either warm reactive or cold reactive. The rate of hemolysis and the severity of the anemia may vary from mild to severe and life-threatening. Diagnosis is made in the laboratory by the findings of anemia, reticulocytosis, a positive Coombs test, an...

Thirty-one adult patients with infections due to anaerobic bacteria were treated with cefamandole. Bacteroides fragilis group (17) and Bacteroides melaninogenicus (13) were the most frequent anaerobes isolated. Duration of therapy varied from 2 to 49 days. Results were judged satisfactory in 26 cases, and unsatisfactory in 1 case. Four cases could not be evaluated. Adverse reactions occurred in...