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.
Bipolar disease. The term bipolar means “pertaining to two poles.” The individual with this form of
Inspecting a patient’s ear during a physical examination.
Role-Playing a Situation in Which a Patient Is from Another Culture
Oral pseudo membraneous candidiasis in a patient with AIDS.
This patient presented with a case of facial palsy caused by an infection by the bacterial ...