Cold haemagglutinin disease in systemic lupus erythematosus | Zendy

Krishnakumar Nair | Zendy; K Pavithran | Zendy; J. Kuehl Philip | Zendy; Mathew Thomas | Zendy; Vasu Geetha | Zendy

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Cold haemagglutinin disease in systemic lupus erythematosus

Author(s) -

Krishnakumar Nair,

K Pavithran,

J. Kuehl Philip,

Mathew Thomas,

Vasu Geetha

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

yonsei medical journal

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.702

H-Index - 63

eISSN - 1976-2437

pISSN - 0513-5796

DOI - 10.3349/ymj.1997.38.4.233

Subject(s) - cold agglutinin , titer , medicine , antibody , immunology , cold agglutinin disease , prednisolone , systemic disease , disease , lupus erythematosus , virology , autoantibody , immunopathology

A 34-year-old lady presenting with features of cold agglutinin disease during the course of systemic lupus erythematosus is described. Cold antibody titer was very high (1 in 4096) with specificity for 'I' antigen. Even though she had poor prognostic factors like high titer of cold antibodies with low thermal amplitude, she responded well to prednisolone.

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