Lessons from very severe, refractory, and fatal primary autoimmune hemolytic anemias

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2015, Pages E149-E151

  Fattizzo, Bruno ^a   Zaninoni, Anna ^a   Nesa, Francesco ^a   Sciumbata, Veronica M ^a   Zanella, Alberto ^a   Cortelezzi, Agostino ^b   Barcellini, Wilma ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; LENALIDOMIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; THALIDOMIDE;

AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COOMBS TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORTALITY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RETICULOCYTOPENIA; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFECTS; ERYTHROCYTE; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLENECTOMY; STEROIDS; THALIDOMIDE; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84937418721     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: 10968652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.24047     Document Type: Letter

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