A patient is admitted with chest pain and extreme shortness of breath. Patient history is unremarkable except for ingestion of oral cefoxitin for the past 4 days.
A DAT profile is positive with polyspecific AHG, negative with anti-IgG, and positive with anti-C3. The hemoglobin is 8.0 gm/dl. Based on these results, what mechanism of drug-induced hemolysis is present?
a. Immune complex
b. Autoantibody
c. Drug adsorption
d. Membrane modification
Question 2
Cold hemolytic anemia is usually caused by the presence of an:
a. IgD antibody.
b. IgG antibody.
c. IgM antibody.
d. IgG1 antibody.
Signs and symptoms of a patient with heart failure.
Lung cancer. Photograph of part of a lung removed after death. The yellow area is a large tumor and
The thorax of apes, including humans, is broad but shallow in contrast to the narrower, deeper chest
Koplik spots in the mouth of a patient with measles.
System of a patient in shock