Contracting the tick-borne parasitic disease babesiosis puts people at risk for warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia (WAHA) after the infection resolves, particularly if they are asplenic, a retrospective ...

Dr. Florence H. Porterfield (Medicine): A 71-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of refractory hemolytic anemia. The patient, who had recurrent breast cancer and diffuse cutaneous ...

Physical/chemical causes. These causes of hemolysis are most often secondary to improper handling of blood products. Reasons include inadvertent heating or freezing with subsequent thawing of the red ...

Mihir Raval, MD, MPH, comments on the difference between cold agglutinin disease and other autoimmune hemolytic anemias. Neil Minkoff, MD: Now, you had mentioned that there are other autoimmune ...

HEREDITARY spherocytosis with its associated congenital hemolytic anemia is generally easily recognized and satisfactorily treated with splenectomy. A rarer group of congenital hemolytic anemias, ...

Hemolytic anemia occurs when red blood cells are destroyed faster than your bone marrow can make them. This can be caused by diseases, autoimmune disorders, or cancer. The treatment depends on the ...

Neonates with hereditary spherocytosis (HS) can present with early and severe hemolytic jaundice and anemia, requiring intensive phototherapy and sometimes early ...

Hemolytic anemia is a condition where the body destroys red blood cells in the body faster than it produces them. This leads to a low red blood cell count and symptoms such as weakness, shortness of ...

Hemolytic disease of the newborn is a type of anemia that begins during pregnancy. It can cause serious illness in a newborn, but it may be diagnosed during prenatal screening and treated to avoid ...

"People living with warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia face a serious, life-threatening disease with no approved treatment options and a high risk of complications, including profound chronic fatigue, ...