Case 1. A 17-year-old boy was admitted to Walter Reed General Hospital for repair of an ostium-primum defect of the interatrial septum with an associated cleft mitral valve and mitral insufficiency.

CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia and malignant lymphomas of the lymphocytic and follicular types may be relatively prolonged, benign diseases. They are inevitably fatal, however, and the final years are ...

Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia and Thrombocytopenia in Patients With Cancer The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this manuscript. All relationships are considered ...

It's a blood test that measures the amount of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) in your body. G6PD is an enzyme that helps your red blood cells work properly. If your G6PD level is too low, you ...

Mihir Raval, MD, MPH, comments on the difference between cold agglutinin disease and other autoimmune hemolytic anemias. Neil Minkoff, MD: Now, you had mentioned that there are other autoimmune ...

Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is a rare form of autoimmune hemolytic anemia — a condition in which you have inadequate red blood cells due to premature destruction of those cells by your own immune ...

This article is authored by Dr Namrata Singh, consultant pathologist, Dept of Haematology and HLA, Metropolis Healthcare ...

Testing newborns to determine who are most at risk from jaundice is no easy task at present--often requiring repeated heel sticks to monitor bilirubin levels as they change during the first weeks of ...