A 58-year-old kidney transplant patient developed autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) three days after receiving an influenza vaccine, a case study reports. The case highlights the importance of educating patients to report any unusual symptoms after vaccination. The study, “Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia in a Renal Transplant Patient Following…
A recent case report alerts clinicians to the fact that cold agglutinin disease (CAD) can arise as a complication of Pneumococcal vaccination. This is the first documented case of an adult who developed CAD associated with a specific self-reactive antibody (anti-Pr) following pneumococcal vaccination. The study, “Anti-Pr…
A case of hemolytic anemia and high bilirubin in blood may mean that infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) — the most common one leading to mononucleosis — can cause cold agglutinin disease, even in the absence of typical symptoms of infection, a study suggests. In…
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