Autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Overview
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a type of hemolytic anemia where the body's immune system attacks its own red blood cells (RBCs), leading to their destruction (hemolysis).

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Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Definition
Definition
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia is a condition in which your body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own red blood cells, causing them to disintegrate (hemolyze).

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia is a condition in which your body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own red blood cells, causing them to disintegrate (hemolyze). This can be a serious, even lethal, condition that requires care from your doctor.

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Anemia - idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic
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Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia is the most common form of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (see this term) defined by the presence of warm autoantibodies against red blood cells (autoantibodies that are active at temperatures between 37-40°C).

Idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia is a drop in the number of red blood cells due to increased destruction by the body's defense (immune) system.
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Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia includes any of a large group of anemias involving autoantibodies against red cell antigens.

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia: In people with this condition, an overactive immune system destroys the body's own red blood cells, causing anemia. Medicines that suppress the immune system, such as prednisone, may be required to stop the process.

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA). In this condition, your immune system makes antibodies (proteins) that attack your red blood cells. Why this happens isn't known.

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Warm antibody hemolytic anemia is the most common type of this disorder. This condition occurs when the body produces autoantibodies that coat red blood cells.

autoimmune hemolytic anemia A condition in which the body's immune system stops red blood cells from forming or causes them to clump together. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia can occur in patients who have chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
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Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Bleeding from low platelets
Fatigue from anemia
Hypogammaglobulinemia (reduced levels of antibodies) -- increases the risk of infection
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
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Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (a condition in which the body destroys red blood cells) occurs in 1-3% of people with mononucleosis. It usually becomes clinically apparent during the second or third week of illness.

The autoimmune hemolytic anemias are rare disorders characterized by the premature destruction (hemolysis) of red blood cells at a rate faster than they can be replaced. Acquired hemolytic anemias are non-genetic in origin.

Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia secondary to IgM Autoantibodies
Warm-reactive AIHA secondary to IgM
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Also called autoimmune hemolytic anemia and immunohemolytic anemia.
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immune function (ih-MYOON FUNK-shun) Production and action of cells that fight disease or infection.

autoimmune hemolytic anemia, in which the immune system destroys a person's red blood cells
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Idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia
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Idiopathic hypersomnia
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
IgA nephropathy
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Autoimmune hemolytic anemia, an immune-mediated disease causing a low red blood cell count
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), an immune-mediated disease causing a low platelet count ...

This test may be positive in the presence of an unexpected blood group antibody or when free (non-RBC-attached) antibody is present in autoimmune hemolytic anemias (see Anemias Caused by Hemolysis: Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia).

An autoimmune response - The treatment of autoimmune hemolytic anemia depends on the cause and the severity. If a drug or infection is causing the anemia, it may be enough to stop the drug or recover from the infection.

This includes autoimmune hemolytic anemia (destruction of the red blood cells) and immune thrombocytopenic purpurea (ITP; destruction of platelets).

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia and/or low platelets (when the immune system destroys red blood cells or platelets) that does not respond to treatment with glucocorticoids, such as prednisone.

Idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Malaria
Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (MAHA)
Non-immune hemolytic anemia caused by chemicals or toxins
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
Secondary immune hemolytic anemia
Sickle-cell anemia ...

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autoimmune hemolytic anemia (red blood cell breakdown)
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Iron deficiency anemia - the most common cause.
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Examples of these types of allergic reactions are transfusion reactions, autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Sometimes — because of disease or for no known reason — the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys red blood cells.
Sickle cell anemia.

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Anemia due to glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase deficiency
Hereditary spherocytosis
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Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia
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but are later destroyed by becoming trapped in the spleen, destroyed by infection, or destroyed from drugs that can affect red blood cells. The following lists some of the causes of extrinsic hemolytic anemia, also called autoimmune hemolytic anemia: ...

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Auditory neuropathy
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Autism
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
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See also: Immune hemolytic anemia, Anemia, Hemolytic anemia, Symptom, Leukemia