The main objectives of this study were to determine the occurrence and potential causative factors of Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA) in native cattle and water buffaloes from southwest of Iran. Fifty-three anemic animals (37 cattle and 16 buffaloes) were studied. A full clinical history and physical examinations were undertaken for all animals. Four clinically healthy cattle and four h...

not found. The serum bilirubin was 0.7 mg./iOO ml., the alkaline phosphatase x6 K.A. units/ioo ml. and the flocculation tests were normal. In the xylose absorption test, 5 g. xylose were excreted in the urine in five hours. A three day test of fat excretion in the stools showed an average of 2.8 g./24 hours. Progress Nine days after admission the h2emoglobin had fallen to 7.2 g./ioo ml., the wh...

The aim of this study was to determine the reliability of the squat jump test (SJ) and countermovement jump test (CMJ), in fifty-six children (30 girls and 26 boys) with ages ranging from 6 to 8 years. Each subject performed two evaluation sessions (T1, T2) with seven days between tests. The results show that the CMJ test has a high intratrial reproducibility in T1 and T2 measured through intra...

Seventy-nine patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia were evaluated for the presence of autoimmune diseases and autoantibodies. One patient has polymyositis and two additional patients presented with features suggestive of pernicious anaemia and chronic active hepatitis. The Coombs' direct test was positive in 7% and immune thrombocytopenia was present in 8.1% of patients. Five (7%) patient...

Chickens inoculated with a transplantable lymphoid tumor developed a progressive anemia that was classified morpho logically as normochromic and normocytic. The bone marrow showed normal cellularity with no evidence of tumor metastasis, and immature erythrocytes were not detected in the peripheral blood. (Increased serum transferrin was corre lated with a decline in both packed cell volume and ...

A 58-year-old woman was admitted with refractory fever despite receiving broad-spectrum antibiotics. She had hypoxemia, severe anemia, elevated levels of serum lactic dehydrogenase and soluble interleukin-2 receptor, and a positive direct Coombs test, which suggested an underlying autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA). Chest computed tomography (CT) showed no abnormal findings, but she had hypoxia...

We report on 5-month-old girl with severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia (hemoglobin 2.9 g/dl, positive direct Coombs test) in whom thrombocytopenia developed after red blood cell transfusion. The platelet count was 62.1 x 10(4)/mm3 on admission and rapidly fell to 6.0 x 10(4)/mm3 rapidly after transfusion of incompatible red blood cells with intravenous predonisolone administration. No increased ...

Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a familial hemolytic disorder with marked heterogeneity of clinical features, ranging from an asymptomatic condition to a fulminant hemolytic anemia. Although a positive family history of spherocytosis increases the risk for this disorder, it may be sporadic in some cases. In severe cases the disorder may be detected in early childhood, but in mild cases it may ...

OBJECTIVE The direct antiglobulin test (DAT) is an important tool for identification of haemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) caused by erythrocyte immunization. Although this test has been used for decades, accurate insights into its diagnostic properties and optimal use in the diagnosis of HDN are limited. We aimed to gain more insight into the diagnostic properties of the DAT for HDN by co...