A TWENTY-SEVEN-year-old woman with rheumatic heart disease had open-heart surgery on April 5, 1966. The direct Coombs tests before operation were negative. She was studied nine days later because of ...
IT was shown by Dacie 1 that normal human sera contain what appears to be an incomplete antibody which becomes attached to erythrocytes at 4' C. and which can be demonstrated by the antiglobulin ...
THE human antiglobulin reagent described by Coombs, Mourant and Race 1 was prepared in rabbits. Later, Eyquem (personal communication), Hill and Haberman 2 and Dunsford (personal communication) ...
The Case: A 72-year-old man with chronic lymphocytic leukemia presents to the emergency department with a 3-month history of shortness of breath on exertion, lethargy, pallor and scleral icterus.