[Acute hemolytic anemia in Mycoplasma pneumonia]

A patients is described with a definite mycoplasmal pneumonia, serologically confirmed, complicated by a severe hemolytic anemia with a high titre of cold antibodies and grave thrombophlebitis. The disease had an acute course and terminated in recovery. The case is reported with a view to the relative rarity of the complication, the existence of only single publication in our literature and the undoubted recent higher incidence of mycoplasmal pneumonian determining the practical value of the communication.