Hemolytic Anemia With Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Pneumonia
Abstract
To the Editor.—
We read with interest the article by Turtzo and Ghatak, "Acute Hemolytic Anemia With Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Pneumonia (236:1140, 1976).
In our view there are serious questions regarding the type of autoantibody causing hemolysis in the patient presented.
Although the direct Coombs' test was positive, no attempts were made to use monospecific Coombs' sera (anti-IgG, anti-C') to characterize the red cell surface proteins. In addition, there were no...