A 59-year-old man with a history of IgG kappa multiple myeloma presented to an outpatient facility for evaluation of left hip pain, which was found to be a pathologic fracture. He has had 2 autologous ...

Medically reviewed by Jordana Haber Hazan, MD Hemolytic anemia occurs when red blood cells are destroyed faster than they can be replaced. The loss of red blood cells means that fewer are available to ...

In the era of Rhesus (Rh) immune globulin treatment, the non-D Rh antibodies are an increasingly significant cause of alloimmune hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). 1 While HDN due to anti-e has ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among pregnant women who received nipocalimab infusions, 54% had live births without an intrauterine transfusion ...

Blood transfusions can be life-saving in the appropriate setting. The vast majority of transfusions are completed without incident, but every transfusion recipient is at risk of a variety of adverse ...

THE risk of isoimmunization after blood transfusion depends on the relative frequency of blood-group factors, their antigenicity and the number and timing of exposures (transfusions). There have been ...

An overview of the roles of plasmapheresis, IVIG, transfusions, and corticosteroids as treatment for patients with cold agglutinin disease. Neil Minkoff, MD: Let me push a little more on you, not ...

Acute immune intravascular hemolysis can also represent a delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction. This is a consideration in this case, because the patient received 2 units of red cells 2 weeks before ...