Case Report: a patient with primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
Diseases of an autoimmune nature are well recognized in association with primary biliary cirrhosis. Although autoimmune thyroiditis and many rheumatological conditions are well described in primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune haematological diseases have been less well reported. We report on a 66 year old North American Indian man with coincident primary biliary cirrhosis and warm antibody haemolytic anaemia. This case report supports the suggestion of an association between autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and primary biliary cirrhosis.
Yoshida
E M
EM
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Nantel
S H
SH
Owen
D A
DA
Galbraith
P F
PF
Dalal
B I
BI
Ballon
H S
HS
Kwan
S Y
SY
Wade
J P
JP
Erb
S R
SR
D000368:Aged; D000744:Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use
D005938:Glucocorticoids; D011241:Prednisone