Intravenous immunoglobulin-induced hemolytic anemia after thoracoscopic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2175-2177

  Tsukada, Hisashi ^a   Sunkara, Rajitha ^b   Chi, Dorcas Doja ^b   Keogh, Deirdre ^a   Gaissert, Henning ^a,c  

^a ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COOMBS TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SLURRED SPEECH; SPHEROCYTOSIS; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE COLOR; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WEAKNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 84901705094     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.08.024     Document Type: Article

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