Open AccessAn Interesting Presentation of Severe Bicytopenia in A Case of SLE
Author(s) -
Muthurangan Manikandan,
Anthony Josephine,
Vindu Srivastava,
Scott Lilly
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of pathology and laboratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2394-6466
pISSN - 2349-6983
DOI - 10.21276/apalm.2986
Subject(s) - medicine , complete blood count , melena , blood count , leukopenia , coombs test , platelet , peripheral blood , immune thrombocytopenia , gastroenterology , immunology , pediatrics , antibody , chemotherapy
We present a case of 25-year-old female who was brought to the hospital for complaints of generalised weakness, fever, and history of melena and haematuria. Following admission complete blood count and peripheral smear was asked; Complete blood count (CBC) findings were haemoglobin 4.2 gm/dl, total WBC count was 14,990, platelet count 7000, reticulocyte count 4%, NRBCs were 15/100 WBCs. Peripheral Smear showed fragmented RBCs, polychromatophils microspherocytes and multiple foci of autoagglutination suggestive of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia. Pertaining to these findings immune workup was done for this patient; coombs test was negative for this patient, but ANA was positive. This identification proved valuable to the patient as; administration of corticosteroids helped to prevent haemolytic transfusion reactions and improved the patient’s haemoglobin and platelet count.