A dual antiglobulin test for the detection of weak or nonagglutinating immunoglobulin M warm autoantibodies

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1131-1134

  Bartolmäs, Thilo ^a   Salama, Abdulgabar ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; COLD AGGLUTININ; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; COLD AGGLUTININ SYNDROME; COOMBS TEST; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; AUTOANTIBODIES; COOMBS' TEST; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE;

EID: 77951687838     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02533.x     Document Type: Article

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