A 64-year-old man in Iran developed cold agglutinin disease (CAD) secondary to acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a type of blood cancer,…
Andrea Lobo
Andrea Lobo is a Science writer at BioNews. She holds a Biology degree and a PhD in Cell Biology/Neurosciences from the University of Coimbra-Portugal, where she studied stroke biology. She was a postdoctoral and senior researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health in Porto, in drug addiction, studying neuronal plasticity induced by amphetamines. As a research scientist for 19 years, Andrea participated in academic projects in multiple research fields, from stroke, gene regulation, cancer, and rare diseases. She authored multiple research papers in peer-reviewed journals. She shifted towards a career in science writing and communication in 2022.
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Articles by Andrea Lobo
The glucocorticoid prednisolone successfully treated a man’s primary cold agglutinin disease (CAD), which is typically resistant to such therapies,…
A man developed cold agglutinin disease (CAD) shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, which ultimately led to the diagnosis…
Warming strategies to prevent body temperature from dropping enabled a 42-year-old woman with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) to undergo…
A middle-aged woman in Iran with a history of Raynaud’s phenomenon was found to have cold agglutinin disease (CAD)…
A 79-year-old woman developed cold agglutinin disease (CAD) secondary to a rare, aggressive type of blood cancer called intravascular large…
Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) appears to be the most common type of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) — a group…
A 12-year-old girl in Italy developed cold agglutinin disease (CAD) as a result of an infection with the Epstein-Barr…
An 83-year-old woman with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) had knee surgery under local spinal anesthesia without any disease-related complications…
Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) was the likely cause of blood clot formation during brain surgery in a 57-year-old man,…