Hemolytic Autoimmune Anemia

Hemolytic anemia, also known as autoimmune hemolysis or isoimmune hemolysis, is a pathological condition that is associated with the destruction of red blood cells by the immune system. This disease affects about 8% of people around the world, of which 3% have an acute form, and the rest have a chronic form. In this article we will look at what autoimmune anemia is, how it manifests itself, and what treatment methods are used to eliminate it.

It is important to know!

Autoimmune anemia is usually a chronic disease that does not cause as severe symptoms as acute anemia. This disease affects 2% of people under the age of 14 and more than half of the adult population after 65 years. Men suffer from this disease more often than women.

The main reason

The human immune system has a built-in blood purification mechanism that removes altered or destroyed red blood cells. In autoimmune anemia, the system mistakenly attacks healthy red blood cells instead of diseased or altered ones.

The most common causes of anemia are:

- acute infections (usually viral); - prolonged hypothermia; - flu, stroke, meningitis; - contact with arsenic, sulfonamides.

Hemolytic autoimmune anemia is a syndrome characterized by: - ​​the development of anemia caused by increased hemolysis; - the presence of an immune complex (usually with an erythrocyte membrane antigen), which activates erythropoiesis with the appearance and intensification of increased hemolysis of erythrocytes.