Acute brucellosis associated with Coombs-positive autoimmune hemolytic anemia and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC);Akutna bruceloza udružena sa Coombs-pozitivnom autoimunosnom hemolitičkom anemijom i diseminiranom intravaskularnom koagulacijom

Medicinski Glasnik

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 265-268

  Mušić, Nerma ^a   Hadžić, Eldira ^a  

^a Kantonalna Bolnica Zenica ^*  (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Brucellosis; Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; COOMBS POSITIVE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67849090152     PISSN: 18400132     EISSN: 18402445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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