eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | hemolytic anemia |
| Comorbidity | C0004576|babesiosis |
| Sentences | 3 |
| PubMedID- 26106576 | The pathogenesis of haemolytic anaemia in babesiosis has not been fully elucidated, but may involve direct erythrocyte damage by replicating parasites, immune-mediated mechanisms, or a combination thereof (solano-gallego and baneth, 2011). |
| PubMedID- 22536513 | However, in neonates, the elderly, splenectomised, immunocompromised, and aids patients [6–14] as well as animals [15–18], the disease can manifest with hepatitis (figure 4(a), experimentally infected hamster), hydrothorax, pneumonia (figure 4(b), infected hamster), myocarditis, splenomegaly, glomerulonephritis, hematuria, and hemolytic anemia resulting from fulminating babesiosis including fatal outcomes if not properly diagnosed and treated [6–8, 10, 15]. |
| PubMedID- 21529393 | Clinicians should consider babesiosis in persons with fever and hemolytic anemia who have had tick exposure or have received blood products. |
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