Clinical Case Reports (Dec 2020)

Efficacy of eculizumab in refractory life‐threatening warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia associated with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia

  • Anne‐Cécile Gauchy,
  • Maxime Hentzien,
  • Alain Wynckel,
  • Victoire de Marcellus,
  • Cyrielle Rodier,
  • Alain Delmer,
  • Anne Quinquenel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3250
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 12
pp. 2641 – 2644

Abstract

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Abstract Eculizumab may be considered as an emergency therapeutic option in refractory life‐threatening warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia especially if direct antiglobulin test is positive for both IgG and C3d and after failure of all conventional treatments.

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