Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
autoimmune hemolytic anemia
autoimmune hemolytic anemia n.
either of two forms of hemolytic anemia involving autoantibodies against red cell antigens; a cold-antibody type, caused by hemagglutinating cold antibody; and a warm-antibody type, due to serum autoantibodies that react with the patient’s red blood cells, with antigenic specificity being chiefly in the rh complex. also called autoallergic hemolytic anemia.
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