"Immunotherapy-Associated Hemolytic Anemia with Pure Red-Cell Aplasia." by Ranjit R Nair, MD

Selected Works of Shereen M.F. Gheith, MD, PhD, MS

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Immunotherapy-Associated Hemolytic Anemia with Pure Red-Cell Aplasia.

The New England journal of medicine

Ranjit R Nair, MD, Lehigh Valley Health Network
Shereen M F Gheith, MD, PhD, Lehigh Valley Health Network
Suresh G. Nair, MD, Lehigh Valley Health Network

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3-17-2016

Abstract

The article presents a case study of a 52-year-old woman who underwent surgery with bilateral sentinel-lymph-node mapping and groin dissection due left labial mucosal malignant melanoma diagnosis. She was treated with anti monoclonal antibody ipilimumab which resulted in clinically significant autoimmune hepatitis. The patient had high-dose glucocorticoids for warm-antibody autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

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26981948

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Nair, R., Gheith, S., & Nair, S. G. (2016). Immunotherapy-Associated Hemolytic Anemia with Pure Red-Cell Aplasia. New England Journal Of Medicine, 374(11), 1096-1097 2p. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1509362.