Joana Carvalho, PhD,  managing science editor—

Physicians should be on the lookout for chronic medical conditions, such as cold agglutinin disease (CAD), that may affect the outcomes of older patients while recovering from cancer extraction surgery, according to a case report. The study, “Perioperative management of cold agglutinin autoimmune hemolytic anemia in an…

APL-2, Apellis Pharmaceuticals’ investigational compound for the treatment of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), increases the levels of hemoglobin and reduces red blood cells’ destruction (hemolysis) in patients with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) and warm antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia (wAIHA), a Phase 2 clinical trial shows.

Patients with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) are twice as likely to die of their disease within the first five years after being diagnosed, when compared with the general population, a study says. The findings announced by Bioverativ — a pharmaceutical company now part of Sanofi that is focused…

The profile of patients with mixed autoimmune hemolytic anemia (MAIHA) must be carefully analyzed to facilitate diagnosis and disease management, a study says. The findings of the study, “Immunohematological and clinical characterizations of mixed autoimmune hemolytic anemia,” were published in the Asian Journal of Transfusion Science.

APL-2, Apellis Pharmaceuticals‘ investigational compound for the treatment of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) and other complement system diseases, has received the designation of orphan drug from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of AIHA. “This orphan drug designation represents an important recognition by…

Despite being extremely rare, cold type autoimmune hemolytic anemia, or cold agglutinin disease (CAD), should be considered in patients with infectious mononucleosis, especially those who also have anemia, a case study reports. The case report, “Cold type autoimmune hemolytic anemia- a rare manifestation of infectious mononucleosis; serum ferritin as…