Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in chronic granulocytic leukemia.

A UTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA may complicate a wide variety of diseases, among which are infectious diseases, “collagen” diseases, benign tumors, malignant tumors, lymphomas and Hodgkin’s disease.1’2 The lymphoproliferative disorders, especially chronic lymphatic leukemia, have often been associated with abnormal immunologic mechanisms. The myeloproliferative disorders are rarely associated with...

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in a patient with acute myelocytic leukemia.

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) has been described in patients with lymphoid neoplasm with an etiologic relationship between the emergence of autoantibodies and lymphocyte dysfunction. Autoimmune disorders are less to develop in patients with other neoplasm like chronic myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome or acute myeloid leukemia. Few reports have been documented the development of i...

Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia

Reticulocytopenia in autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

ETICULOCYTOSIS is gemserally regarded as a characteristic feature of the hensolytic symsdrome. The outpouring of young red cells is ouse of the bone marrow’s reactiomss to the challenge of aisemia, atsd the numssber of reticulocytes it produces is oftets a good measure of the severity of the hemolytic process. Whets the red cell life spams is very short mssost of the cells ims the circulation n...