background autoimmune hemolytic anemia is a hematologic disorder that is rarely observed in infants and young children. most of the cases are associated with viral or bacterial infections. in some cases, aiha can be characterized by a chronic course and an unsatisfactory control of hemolysis, thus requiring prolonged immunosuppressive therapy. case report especially in children younger than 2 y...

anti-human globulin was produced in iranian rabbits and goat by using human o serum mixed with freund's adjutants (complete or incomplete) for immunizing the animals. a titer of 1.4096 was obtained in rabbit and a titer of 1.2056 was obtained in goat. quality-and quantity-wise, goat's serum appeared to be better than rabbit's serum.

abstract background: lymphoproliferative disorders are among the most serious and potentially fatal complications of chronic immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients. the principle risk factors for development of ptld are the degree of overall immunosuppression and the ebv serostatus of the recipient. in this study, the risk of ptld in kidney transplant recipients who received anti- ly...

purpose: to evaluate the vascular occlusion in coats’ disease   methods: in this non-comparative case series, 13 consecutive patients with coats’ disease from january 2011 to september 2011 were included. the hypercoagulability states were evaluated in these patients.   results: the mean age of the patients in this series was 15.4 years. all but one patient had high anti-cytomegalovirus antibod...

To the Editor I read with great interest the article " A case of isoniazid-induced thrombocytopenia: recovery with im-munoglobulin therapy " in volume 51, number 7, April 2012 issue of your journal (1). As the authors mentioned, this case represents a rare adverse event associated with isoni-azid therapy, namely, isoniazid-induced thrombocytopenia. It is well known that almost all anti-tubercul...

The direct anti-globulin test was performed at random on 310 hospitalized patients with various diseases. Thirty-three patients were positive to anti-globulin test without any evidence of manifest autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Hematologic and erythrokinetic studies on these patients with latent autoim mune hemolytic syndrome revealed that their slight anemia was secondary anemia due to their bas...

 Abstract Background: Lymphoproliferative disorders are among the most serious and potentially fatal complications of chronic immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients. The principle risk factors for development of PTLD are the degree of overall immunosuppression and the EBV serostatus of the recipient. In this study, the risk of PTLD in kidney transplant recipients who received Anti- L...

By ROBERT E. ANDERSON AND Ro L. WALFORD T HE PRESENT study forms part of a continuing effort to develop quantitative methods for detecting antigen-antibody reactions involving nucleated cells as antigen. Here we shall present information regarding the preparation of purified, 1131-labelled anti-human-globulin antibody (AHG antibody) by means of adsorption and elution from normal human globulin,...