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Concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report

Warm antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia is due to the presence of warm agglutinins that react with protein antigens on the surface of red blood cells causing premature destruction of circulating red blood cells. We report the first case of concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and autoim...

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Autores principales: Chiang, Elizabeth, Packer, Clifford D
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918501
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6988
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description Warm antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia is due to the presence of warm agglutinins that react with protein antigens on the surface of red blood cells causing premature destruction of circulating red blood cells. We report the first case of concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. A 40-year-old man with reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, mitral valve prolapse, and Gilbert’s disease presented with a one month history of jaundice, fatigue, and black stools. After diagnosis of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia, the patient was started on prednisone 1 mg/kg with rapid improvement in his anemia and jaundice. Our subject’s mother and possibly his maternal grandmother also had autoimmune hemolytic anemia, which raises the possibility of hereditary autoimmune hemolytic anemia, a rarely reported condition.
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spelling pubmed-27693312009-11-16 Concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report Chiang, Elizabeth Packer, Clifford D Cases J Case report Warm antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia is due to the presence of warm agglutinins that react with protein antigens on the surface of red blood cells causing premature destruction of circulating red blood cells. We report the first case of concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. A 40-year-old man with reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, mitral valve prolapse, and Gilbert’s disease presented with a one month history of jaundice, fatigue, and black stools. After diagnosis of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia, the patient was started on prednisone 1 mg/kg with rapid improvement in his anemia and jaundice. Our subject’s mother and possibly his maternal grandmother also had autoimmune hemolytic anemia, which raises the possibility of hereditary autoimmune hemolytic anemia, a rarely reported condition. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2769331/ /pubmed/19918501 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6988 Text en © 2009 Chiang and Packer; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report
title Concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report
title_full Concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report
title_fullStr Concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report
title_short Concurrent reactive arthritis, Graves’ disease, and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report
title_sort concurrent reactive arthritis, graves’ disease, and warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918501
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6988
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