Low Level of Haptoglobin in Lupus

Haptoglobin levels are measured in systematic lupus erythematosus patients as part of the workup for anemia, with low levels indicating hemolysis. Haptoglobin is an acute phase protein. We present 2 lupus patients who were found to have low haptoglobin levels in the absence of other evidence of hemo...

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Autores principales: Timlin, Homa, Machireddy, Kirthi, Petri, Michelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5298417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28203576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709616689106
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description Haptoglobin levels are measured in systematic lupus erythematosus patients as part of the workup for anemia, with low levels indicating hemolysis. Haptoglobin is an acute phase protein. We present 2 lupus patients who were found to have low haptoglobin levels in the absence of other evidence of hemolysis.
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spelling pubmed-52984172017-02-15 Low Level of Haptoglobin in Lupus Timlin, Homa Machireddy, Kirthi Petri, Michelle J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Haptoglobin levels are measured in systematic lupus erythematosus patients as part of the workup for anemia, with low levels indicating hemolysis. Haptoglobin is an acute phase protein. We present 2 lupus patients who were found to have low haptoglobin levels in the absence of other evidence of hemolysis. SAGE Publications 2017-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5298417/ /pubmed/28203576 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709616689106 Text en © 2017 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_short Low Level of Haptoglobin in Lupus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5298417/
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