title: [Case report of a female patient with autoimmune hemolytic anemia and cold agglutinin antibodies].
abstract: We report a case of acute transient cold agglutinin disease, the etiology of which we could not determine with the available methods. Cold autoagglutinins had anti I specificity, high titers of the autoantibody (> 1:1,000) and the thermal range was relative wide. Our patient had severe haemolysis and immunosuppressive therapy with methylprednisolone and cyclophosphamide was administered. It is a question how much these immunosuppresive agents influenced the recovery, and in what extent it was a self limited disease with spontaneous recovery.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za pedijatriju Salata, Klinicki bolnicki centar, Zavod za hematologiju i onkologiju, Zagreb.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Konja
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jakovljević
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jaksić
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grgicević
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Car
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Glavas
mesh_terms: D000373:Agglutinins / Q000276:immunology*; D000744:Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune / Q000276:immunology* / Q000628:therapy; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D003080:Cold Temperature; D003450:Cryoglobulins; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000373:Agglutinins; D001323:Autoantibodies; D003450:Cryoglobulins; C029443:cold agglutinins
vernacular_title: Prikaz bolesnice s autoimunom hemolitickom anemijom s hladnim protutijelima.