CASE REPORT
Year : 2020 | Volume
: 14 | Issue : 1 | Page : 57--59
Applying Donath–Landsteiner test for the diagnosis of paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria
Aseem Kumar Tiwari, Geet Aggarwal, Subhasis Mitra, Dinesh Arora, Gunjan Bhardwaj, Ankita Ratan, Divya Setya
Department of Transfusion Medicine, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Aseem Kumar Tiwari
Department of Transfusion Medicine, Medanta-The Medicity, Sector-38, Gurgaon - 122 001, Haryana
India
61-year old male patient was admitted to the hospital with clinical picture of hemolytic anemia with hemoglobinuria. Patient was suspected to have Infectious Mononucleosis (IM) with Auto Immune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA). DAT was positive with anti-C3d specificity. Donath Landsteiner (DL) test was positive; confirming Paroxysmal Cold Hemoglobinuria (PCH). The final diagnosis was IM with PCH. Patient was managed conservatively and discharged after seven days. DL test specifically detects a biphasic autoantibody (IgG type) that binds to RBCs at cold temperatures, and fixes complement on the RBC membrane. However RBCs are only lysed upon warming to 37C when complement cascade proceeds to completion.
How to cite this article:
Tiwari AK, Aggarwal G, Mitra S, Arora D, Bhardwaj G, Ratan A, Setya D. Applying Donath–Landsteiner test for the diagnosis of paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria.Asian J Transfus Sci 2020;14:57-59
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Tiwari AK, Aggarwal G, Mitra S, Arora D, Bhardwaj G, Ratan A, Setya D. Applying Donath–Landsteiner test for the diagnosis of paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria. Asian J Transfus Sci [serial online] 2020 [cited 2023 Feb 2 ];14:57-59
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