If you’ve been feeling fatigued, have shortness of breath, cold hands and feet, and very pale skin, you may have an insufficient amount of red blood cells. This condition is called anemia, and it has ...

Four cases of Coombs-positive hemolytic anemia have been described in which the administration of penicillin to patients with circulating antipenicillin antibody was the suspected cause of the ...

The Case: A 72-year-old man with chronic lymphocytic leukemia presents to the emergency department with a 3-month history of shortness of breath on exertion, lethargy, pallor and scleral icterus.

A TWENTY-SEVEN-year-old woman with rheumatic heart disease had open-heart surgery on April 5, 1966. The direct Coombs tests before operation were negative. She was studied nine days later because of ...

Antibodies are a part of your immune system. They fight germs, but sometimes they make a mistake and target your body's healthy cells instead. The Coombs test checks your blood for antibodies that ...