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.
A 19-foot-long blue whale skull in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Patient with a cerebrovascular accident.
Illustration of diaphragmatic and chest wall movement
Attributed to Thomas Dennis or William Searle, Chest, made in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Examples of endocrine disorders. (D) A patient with gigantism.
Effect of extreme homoallostery