Autoimmune hemolytic anemia with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage:A case report and literature re-view
LIU Yin
LUO Ya-jun
HE Xiao-xu
YANG Jing-cheng
XUE Xiao-yan
Abstract:We study the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage by reporting a case and reviewing its related literature. A young male manifested as sore throat, fever, sauce-color urine, hypourocrinia, a decrease of hemoglobin and progres?sive dyspne. There was widespread pulmonary infiltration occurred on CT scan. The patient was diag?nosed as acute autoimmune hemolytic anemia with alveolar hemorrhage and treat by continuous ventila?tor-assisted ventilation, glucocorticoid, human immune globulin, antibiotics, blood purification and so on. Than the patient get better and discharged. We realized alveolar hemorrhage for autoimmune hemolyt?ic anemia, was a rare but fatal complications, progress is rapid, easy to be misdiagnosed. Early diagnosis, treatment with enough glucocorticoid, human immune globulin and blood purification timely can improve its prognosis greatly.
Keywords:Autoimmune hemolytic anemiaBoth warm and cold autoantibodiesDiffuse alveolar hemorrhageMycoplasma pneumoniae infection
Publication Date:2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date:2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages:4( 669-672 )

PKUISTIC
ISSN:1002-1949
Year, Vol.(Issue):2016,36(7)