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Teardrop-shaped Red Cells in Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia by Deborah L. Farolino; Pradip K. Rustagi; Mark S. Currie; Thomas D. Doeblin; Gerald L. Logue is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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The presence of teardrop-shaped red cells in peripheral blood has traditionally been felt to reflect altered marrow architecture, namely myelofibrosis. We evaluated two patients with splenomegaly, moderately severe hemolytic anemia due to warm-reactive IgG anti-red cell autoantibody, and bone marrow erythroid hyperplasia without myelofibrosis. A striking predominance of teardrop-shaped red cells was noted upon examination of their blood films. Removal of a spleen containing extramedullary hematopoiesis in one and resolution of splenomegaly in the other were accompanied by disappearance of these cells. Our observations support a role for the spleen and for extramedullary hematopoiesis in the pathogenesis of this distinctive red cell morphologic abnormality.
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- Author
- Deborah L. Farolino; Pradip K. Rustagi; Mark S. Currie; Thomas D. Doeblin; Gerald L. Logue
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 0361-8609)
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)