Basu Sabita, Saifudeen A, Kaur Paramjit
Department of Transfusion Medicine, Government Medical College & Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh.
J Assoc Physicians India. 2009 Sep;57:656-7.
Cold agglutinins are autoantibodies and are often present in the sera of healthy individuals. They assume importance when the thermal reactivity of these antibodies approaches body temperature. This communication describes a case of cold hemagglutinin disease with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection detected during routine laboratory investigations. The patient was managed conservatively.