High prevalence of monoclonal gammopathy among patients with warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Am J Hematol. 2017 Aug;92(8):E164-E166. doi: 10.1002/ajh.24765. Epub 2017 Jun 1.

Authors

Aishwarya Ravindran¹, Janani Sankaran^{1

2}, Eapen K Jacob³, Justin D Kreuter³, C Christopher Hook¹, Morie A Gertz¹, Timothy G Call¹, Rajiv K Pruthi¹, Mark R Litzow¹, Alexandra P Wolanskyj¹, William J Hogan¹, Aneel A Ashrani¹, Kebede H Begna¹, Ariela L Marshall¹, Robert A Kyle¹, Neil E Kay¹, Ronald S Go¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
² Department of Family Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia.
³ Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

PMID: 28437873
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.24765

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune / epidemiology*
Antibodies, Monoclonal / blood
Autoantibodies / blood
Autoimmune Diseases / epidemiology
Comorbidity
Coombs Test
Female
Hematologic Neoplasms / epidemiology
Humans
Immunoglobulin G / blood
Male
Middle Aged
Paraproteinemias / blood
Paraproteinemias / epidemiology*
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies
Young Adult

Substances

Antibodies, Monoclonal
Autoantibodies
Immunoglobulin G