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Idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia - Symptom

Alternative Names

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Anemia - idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic

Symptoms:

Signs and tests:

Direct Coombs' test
Hemoglobin in the urine
Indirect Coombs' test
Red blood cell count and serum hemoglobin
Reticulocyte count
Serum bilirubin levels
Serum haptoglobin

Antibodies

Reviewed last on: 11/23/2008
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Yi-Bin Chen, MD, Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

References

Schwartz RS. Autoimmune and intravascular hemolytic anemias. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2007:chap 164.

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