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Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma accompanied by autoimmune hemolytic anemia with anti-e autoantibody
K Suzuki1, Y Murata, K Shiotani
1First Department of Internal Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
Japanese Journal of Medicine
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 43-year-old male with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma accompanied by autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA). His blood group was group B, CcDEe. Alloantibody was absent in his serum, but autoantibody, a combination of IgG and C3d type which showed anti-e specificity, was present. Although transient improvement of AIHA was achieved by treatment with 60 mg/day of prednisolone, subsequent worsening of the anemia resulted in the patient's death. Identification of blood group-specific autoantibodies may be beneficial in such a case for blood transfusion.