Multiple strategies to keep a woman with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) sufficiently warm right before and during hip replacement surgery allowed for a safe procedure and the absence of post-surgery complications, a case study shows. One way to reduce heat loss — and therefore prevent disease worsening — was…
A woman with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) secondary to a cancer also developed bilateral retinal vasculitis — inflammation of the blood vessels found at the back of both eyes — in what researchers claim to be “the first report of retinal vasculitis in a patient with CAD.” Initial treatment…
A test called Hevylite was superior to standard methods at detecting immunoglobulin M (IgM) — a type of antibody associated with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) — in the blood of people with the disease, a small study has shown. This suggests that Hevylite, sold by Binding Site,…
An elderly woman in Japan is the first reported patient in Asia to develop cold agglutinin disease (CAD) due to COVID-19, according to a new case study. The patient was found to have anemia, or an unusually low red blood cell count, that was not resolved with a blood…
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