Haemolytic Anaemia

Haemolytic anaemia.

Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia.

Correspondence BRITISH 465 Melbourne (Daily Telegraph, 30 June). A plastic tube 4 inches (10 cm.) long is reported to have been used, but I doubt if it will be successful as it has no cilia and no secretion. There is yet time to develop, in Britain a live transplant which, even if eventually rejected, would serve to secure at least one SIR,-Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia (M.H.A.) has been ...

Haemolytic anaemia in myelomatosis.

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Haemolytic Anaemia in Osteopetrosis

The anaemia so frequently found in cases of osteopetrosis in children has been generally regarded as being due to poor development of the bone marrow cavity by failure of absorption and organization of primitive chondro-osteoid tissue (Warkany, 1959; Clifton and Frank, 1959; Aegerter and Kirkpatrick, 1958). In many cases, however, the severity of the anaemia has not corresponded with the radiol...

Thrombotic microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia.

The syndrome of thrombotic microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia is rare and almost all the cases reported have been in adults. Very few cases occurring in childhood have been reported and the youngest recorded case was 22 months old (Craig and Gitlin, 1957). We report the clinical and pathological details and the response to treatment of a child aged 21 months, who was seen at the Austin Hospita...