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J. Korean Med. Sci. · Feb 2004
Case ReportsHemolytic anemia as a sequela of arsenic intoxication following long-term ingestion of traditional Chinese medicine.
- Je-Jung Lee, Yeo-Kyeoung Kim, Sang-Hee Cho, Kyeong-Soo Park, Ik-Joo Chung, Duck Cho, Dong-Wook Ryang, and Hyeoung-Joon Kim.
- Departments of Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea. hjoonk@chonnam.ac.kr
- J. Korean Med. Sci. 2004 Feb 1; 19 (1): 127-9.
AbstractWe report on a 51-yr-old woman who developed intravascular hemolytic anemia caused by arsenic after long-term ingestion of a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Twelve years before the admission, she was diagnosed as neurocysticercosis. She has ingested a TCM for about 12 yr instead of undergoing medical therapy for the disease. She was presented with a severe Coombs'-negative hemolytic anemia with hemosiderinuria. The urine arsenic level was elevated suggesting the arsenic intoxication as a cause of the anemia. She was treated successfully with therapeutic red cell exchange without any sequelae.
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