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Report Details How CAD Patient Was Warmed for Hip Surgery

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…

Enjaymo Improves Life Quality, Lessens Fatigue: Analysis

People with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) reported clinically significant improvements in health-related quality of life after treatment with Enjaymo (sutimlimab-jome), according to a new analysis of data from the Phase 3 CADENZA clinical trial. These findings “further augment the primary efficacy outcomes of the placebo-controlled Phase 3 CADENZA…

Despite Treatment, High Unmet Medical Need in CAD, Study Finds

Even with treatment, many people with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) continue to experience moderate or severe anemia and hemolysis events caused by red blood cell destruction, a new analysis found. “Despite high proportions of patients receiving CAD-related therapies during the first year following diagnosis, the number of moderate/severe anemia…

Enterovirus 71 Triggers Anemia in Young Boy

An enterovirus infection triggered autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) — a condition in which the body’s immune system generates self-reactive antibodies that destroy red blood cells — in an 11-year-old boy, a case study has reported for the first time. Although some signs were consistent with a case of virus-induced…