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- V Nouyrigat, S Muller, A Charollais, M Gabolde, and B Bader Meunier.
- Polyclinique enfants, hôpital de Bicêtre, 78, rue du Général-Leclerc, 94275 Le-Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. valeire.nouyrigat@bct.ap-hop-paris.fr
- Arch Pediatr. 2001 Sep 1; 8 (9): 965-8.
Case ReportA ten-month-old boy presented with a severe auto-immune hemolytic anemia. Direct antiglobin test was positive only for IgA class autoantibodies. He recovered with a high dose corticosteroid treatment.ConclusionIgA class autoantibodies should be searched for in the case of a high suspicion of auto-immune hemolytic anemia with negative direct antiglobin test for IgG and complement. Corticosteroid treatment is most often successful.
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