Tishler, M., MD, Prof. Abramov, A., MD, Department of Medicine ‘B’, Ichilov Hospital Medical Center, Tel Aviv (Israel) To the Editor, Hemolytic anemia has been reported to occur rarely with phenazopyridine treatment in patients with normal red blood cells [Nathan et al., 1977]. We report a hemolytic event in a patient having G6PD deficiency and mild renal failure. Case History A 73-year-old Ara...

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a thrombotic microangiopathy defined by the triad of sudden onset hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury. We describe rare case atypical HUS secondary to pancreatitis with an unknown etiology in 20-year-old male who presented complaint nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain.

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Primary mixed-type autoimmune hemolytic anemia concomitant with acute splanchnic venous thrombosis of idiopathic origin in a young woman: an unexplained association TO THE EDITOR: Mixed autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is defined by the presence of both wa...

Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia occurs in a diverse group of disorders, including thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, hemolytic uremic syndrome, and prosthetic cardiac valves. Hemolytic anemia also occurs as a rare complication after mitral valve repair. In this report, we describe a case of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia following myxoma excision and mitral valve repair, which was presen...

abstract background: occupational exposure studies indicate that formaldehyde exposure causes temporary and consistent effects on industrial workers exposed to formalin. case: the case was a 36-year-old man who had developed intravascular hemolytic anemia caused by formalin after inhalation exposure. formalin is a clear solution of 37% formaldehyde in water. the primary route of exposure to for...

sixty-six children with g6pd deficiency were evaluated retrospectively to ascertain the clinical features, etiology, ultimate outcome and population at risk, the occurrence of jaundice in 18 neonates (group j) was, contrary to other countries, in the form of neonatal jaundice type ii. sepsis, prematurity, hypoxia and acidosis were associating factors. 77.8% of neonates had exchange blood transf...

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favism is an acute hemolytic anemia which occurs in people who have (g6pd deficiency. in iran g6pd deficiency is prevalent in the coast of caspian sea. the main aim of our study was to investigate the prevalence of favism in mazandaran province in north of iran. our main source of data was the tiles of patients’ who had been hospitalized in three different children’s hospital in different citie...

AIM To study the influence of enterococci on human sperm membrane in vitro. METHODS Ejaculated human sperm were artificially infected with beta-hemolytic or non-beta-hemolytic enterococci at the bacteria: sperm ratio of 50:1 at 37 degrees . Sperm membrane integrity was examined after incubation for 1, 3 and 5 h by hypoosmotic swelling (HOS) test and electron microscopy. RESULTS Sperm infect...

BACKGROUND Anti-IH is usually a clinically insignificant antibody that may complicate a serologic workup. However, it can occasionally cause hemolysis. We report a rare case of acute hemolysis caused by anti-IH. CASE REPORT A 60-year-old man with a long history of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia and anemia, blood group A, D+ was found to have an unidentified antibody on serologic workup. He r...