Erythropoietin may improve anemia in patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia associated with reticulocytopenia

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-223

  Arbach, Olga ^a   Funck, Robert ^b   Seibt, Frank ^c   Salama, Abdulgabar ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b St Marien Amberg Clinic   (Germany)

^c Private Internal Medicine Practice   (Germany)

Author keywords

AIHA; Anemia; Autoimmune hemolytic anaemia; Erythropoietin; Reticulocytopenia

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RETICULOCYTOPENIA; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861855250     PISSN: 16603796     EISSN: 16603818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000339260     Document Type: Review

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