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A 63 year old man was admitted during a haemolytic crisis. A direct Coomb’s test was positive and a non-specific agglutinin detected. Bone marrow biopsy showed erythroid hyperplasia with megaloblastic crythropoiesis. Treatment with blood transfusion, antibiotics, intravenous hydrocortisone and oral prednisolone was followed by a reversion of crythropoiesis to normoblastic and a rise in the haemoglobin to a normal level. Biopsy of a lymph node revealed features of Hodgkin’s disease.
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Ryder, R.J.W. Megaloblastic erythropoiesis in acquired haemolytic anaemia. Ir. J. Med. Sci. 40, 165–169 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943845
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