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Life-threatening autoimmune hemolytic anemia in a patient with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome
A P Rapoport1, J M Rowe, A McMican
1Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642.
Transfusion
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
Increasing numbers of patients are being seen with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). An abnormal serology with a positive direct antiglobulin test has been observed in these patients and is usually not thought to contribute to significant clinical morbidity. We describe a patient with AIDS who presented with a severe hemolytic anemia which was not distinguishable clinically and serologically from the idiopathic form of autoimmune hemolytic anemia.