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Haptoglobin helps diagnose the HELLP syndrome
1Department of Medicine, Wellesley Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|November 1, 1987
In a case of the HELLP syndrome, anemia was absent, and bilirubin and lactic dehydrogenase levels were normal. In combination with minimal microangiopathic changes in red cell morphology, a decrease in serum haptoglobin was useful to corroborate the presence of intravascular hemolysis.
In a case of the HELLP syndrome, anemia was absent, and bilirubin and lactic dehydrogenase levels were normal. In combination with minimal microangiopathic changes in red cell morphology, a decrease in serum haptoglobin was useful to corroborate the presence of intravascular hemolysis.