The association of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a known phenomenon. In many cases of AIHA, no autoantibody specificity is present. The patient’s serum reacts with all of the red blood cell (RBC) samples tested and the autoantibody appears to have broad specificity in the Rh blood group system. Occasionally, RBC autoantibodies demonstrate apparent...

The association of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a known phenomenon. In many cases of AIHA, no autoantibody specificity is present. The patient’s serum reacts with all of the red blood cell (RBC) samples tested and the autoantibody appears to have broad specificity in the Rh blood group system. Occasionally, RBC autoantibodies demonstrate apparent...

The association of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a known phenomenon. In many cases of AIHA, no autoantibody specificity is present. The patient’s serum reacts with all of the red blood cell (RBC) samples tested and the autoantibody appears to have broad specificity in the Rh blood group system. Occasionally, RBC autoantibodies demonstrate apparent...

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) in children is sometimes characterized by a severe course, requiring prolonged administration of immunosuppressive therapy. Rituximab is able to cause selective in vivo destruction of B lymphocytes, with abrogation of antibody production. In a prospective study, we have evaluated the use of rituximab for the treatment of AIHA resistant to conventional treatmen...

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) has been associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and classical Hodgkin lymphoma, but to the best of our knowledge, the association of AIHA and nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL) has not been reported previously. A 20-year-old woman presented with conjunctival jaundice, fever, asthenia, and hemoglobin 9.2 g/dL re...

The glycoprotein CD47 (integrin-associated protein, IAP) is present on the surface of virtually all cells, including red blood cells (RBCs). CD47 acts like a marker of self by ligating the macrophage inhibitory receptor signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPalpha). In this manner mild reactivity of wild-type RBCs with macrophage phagocytic receptors is tolerated, whereas otherwise identical CD47...

Splenic infarction is most commonly caused by cardiovascular thromboembolism; however, splenic infarction can also occur in hematologic diseases, including sickle cell disease, hereditary spherocytosis, chronic myeloproliferative disease, leukemia, and lymphoma. Although 10% of splenic infarction is caused by hematologic diseases, it seldom accompanies autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA). We rep...

in order to evaluate the effect of rimsulfuron, eptc (eradican), oxadiargyl, metribuzin and metribuzin herbicides for controling of lambsquarter (chenopodium album) and prostrate pigweed (amaranthus retroflexus), an experiment was conducted at the mohaghegh ardabili university green house in 2008. a dose-response assay was conducted based on completely randomized design with four replications. ...

in order to evaluate the efficacy of some new herbicides in corn farms, a field study was conducted during the 2010 growing season in jiroft. the experimental design was completely randomized blocks, with 11 treatments and 4 replications. treatments were nicosulfuron at 2lit/ha, foramsulfuron at 2.5 lit/ha, rimsulfuron at 50 g/ha, nicosulfuron+ rimsulfuron at 175 g/ha, bromoxynil+mcpa at 1.5 li...

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a condition in which self-antibodies bound to antigens on the membranes of red blood cells initiate their destruction (hemolysis) via the complement and reticuloendothelial systems. Multiple myeloma (MM), on the other hand, is characterized by a clonal expansion of plasma cells in bone marrow, causing bone tissue destruction, renal failure and hematopoietic...