Immunotherapy-Associated Hemolytic Anemia with Pure Red-Cell Aplasia.

Authors

Ranjit R. Nair MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Shereen M F Gheith MD, PhD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Suresh G. Nair MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow

Publication/Presentation Date

3-17-2016

Abstract

The article presents a case study of a 52-year-old woman who underwent surgery with bilateral sentinel-lymph-node mapping and groin dissection due left labial mucosal malignant melanoma diagnosis. She was treated with anti monoclonal antibody ipilimumab which resulted in clinically significant autoimmune hepatitis. The patient had high-dose glucocorticoids for warm-antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

Volume

374

Issue

11

First Page

1096

Last Page

1097

ISSN

1533-4406

Published In/Presented At

Nair, R., Gheith, S., & Nair, S. G. (2016). Immunotherapy-Associated Hemolytic Anemia with Pure Red-Cell Aplasia. New England Journal Of Medicine, 374(11), 1096-1097 2p. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1509362.

Disciplines

Medical Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

26981948

Department(s)

Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine Faculty, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Document Type

Article