A 12-year-old girl in Italy developed cold agglutinin disease (CAD) as a result of an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus that causes infectious mononucleosis, a case study reported. Treatment with the corticosteroid methylprednisolone and intravenous immunoglobin (IVIG) progressively led to complete resolution of her CAD symptoms.
An 83-year-old woman with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) had knee surgery under local spinal anesthesia without any disease-related complications as a result of significant warming strategies to prevent her body temperature from getting too low, a study shows. During and after the surgery, the woman’s body temperature remained stable…
Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) was the likely cause of blood clot formation during brain surgery in a 57-year-old man, despite measures to prevent his body temperature from getting too low, a case study in Turkey showed. Because the clot occurred at the site where two brain blood vessels were…
Rituximab does not seem to increase the risk for severe outcomes compared with other cold agglutinin disease (CAD) treatments in people who have the disease and COVID-19, according to a review study. “Nonetheless, caution is advised when using rituximab in CAD patients with COVID-19 and underlying [autoimmune] conditions…
Atypical symptoms, including persistent blue discoloration and skin lesions in the extremities, along with uncommon laboratory findings, delayed a cold agglutinin disease (CAD) diagnosis for more than a decade in a 60-year-old woman, a study reports. “This case adds important context to the difficulty in diagnosis of this disease,”…
Sanofi’s experimental therapy SAR445088 effectively blocks the classic complement pathway — a part of the immune system that’s implicated in cold agglutinin disease (CAD) — and reduced red blood cell destruction in a cellular model of CAD, a study showed. SAR445088’s more targeted action may make it a…
The rare case of a young woman with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) secondary to chickenpox, also known as varicella, was described in a recent report in India. While corticosteroids, a type of steroid, are usually not recommended for CAD secondary to an infection, the rapid and sustained red blood…
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