I blinked several times in the bright sunlight as I started down the stairs that had been rolled up to the airplane. The airport seemed strangely built, with two large buildings topped by tall, cone-shaped roofs. A man was at the bottom of the stairs, and we instantly recognized that…
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A woman in Sri Lanka likely developed secondary cold agglutinin disease (CAD) that resulted from a rare type of “unusual and clinically aggressive” diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a fast-growing blood cancer that formed in immune B-cells and involved the bone marrow, liver, and spleen. The case is the first…
“Easy, easy,” I said in my most reassuring voice. “It’s very easy to get to my house. There are only two turns.” Despite that, the courier from the shipping company was telling me that I lived too far out in the jungle for him to possibly find my house and…
The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-Fatigue) scale, a widely used questionnaire to assess fatigue, is reliable, valid, and responsive to changes in the severity of cold agglutinin disease (CAD), according to a study. The findings relied on CAD patients’ impressions of the FACIT-Fatigue scale and data from…
Inhaling deeply, I took in the clearness of the June morning. The zoysia grass in our front yard was thick and green and luscious, like a deep-pile carpet. Off in the distance, I could hear a hawk squawking at its mate. Some magnolia blossoms were on low-hanging branches nearby, and…
Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is a rare disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks red blood cells, resulting in anemia.
CAD is characterized by autoantibodies, called cold agglutinins, binding to and activating the destruction of red blood cells when exposed to cold temperatures.
Symptoms of CAD include fatigue, Raynaud’s syndrome, joint pain, jaundice or skin discoloration, and heart problems. These symptoms can worsen with more cold exposure.
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