A warm antibody mediated acute hemolytic anemia with reticulocytopenia in a four-month-old girl requiring immunosuppressive therapy

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 239-244

  Olcay, Lale ^a   Düzova, Ali ^a   Gümrük, Fatma ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Childhood; Reticulocytopenia; Warm antibody

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; COOMBS TEST; CYTOPENIA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; VACCINATION;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ANTIBODIES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COOMBS' TEST; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL; PREDNISOLONE; RETICULOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 2442732586     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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