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Hematol Rep
January 2025
Children's Haematology and Cancer Centre, Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore 228510, Singapore.
Background: Peripheral erythrophagocytosis appears to be a unique sign of acquired immune-mediated hemolytic anemia. It is said to be rare but its prevalence among patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia has not been studied.
Methods: In this retrospective study from July 2014 to June 2024, the clinical and laboratory features, treatment and outcomes of children diagnosed with autoimmune hemolytic anemia were described.
Inn Med (Heidelb)
January 2025
MVZ Nephrocare Mettmann GmbH, Gartenstr. 4-8, 40822, Mettmann, Deutschland.
Recognizing anemia and thrombpenia in acute and emergency medicine is easy. Acute (microangiopathic hemolytic) anemia and thrombopenia can be a sign of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). TMA syndromes are potentially life-threatening diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastric duplication is a rare congenital disorder of the alimentary tract, and anemia is a rare presenting clinical sign of gastric duplication cysts (GDC). There are two reported cases of autoimmune hemolytic anemia as a paraneoplastic presentation of gastric duplication in the adult population, but there have not yet been any reported cases of this in childhood. We report the first case in the pediatric patient population: the case of GDC presenting as autoimmune hemolytic anemia in a 15-month-old girl.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol
January 2025
Baylor College of Medicine Houston TX, United States.
Objective: Monochorionic diamniotic (MCDA) twins with amniotic fluid abnormalities that do not meet criteria for twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) concern physicians and families. This study aimed to describe the natural history of amniotic fluid abnormalities.
Methods: In this retrospective case-control study, TTTS screening ultrasounds and clinical records throughout all MCDA twin gestations were reviewed between 2018 and 2022 at a tertiary fetal care center.
Forensic Sci Med Pathol
January 2025
Unit of Legal Medicine, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 49, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
A 36-year-old woman diagnosed with complicated cholecystolithiasis underwent elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), then converted to open cholecystectomy because of a massive intraoperative bleeding. Hemostasis was performed with clipping and suturing the source of bleeding. In post-operative period, the patient suffered from persistent anemia associated with hemoperitoneum diagnosed through abdominal CT scanning, in absence of any sign of active bleeding.
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