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ArticleBMJ case reports2011

Pegylated interferon de novo-induce autoimmune haemolytic anaemia in chronic hepatitis C patient.

Ashraf Said, Ashraf Elbahrawy, Mohamed Alfiomy, Mohamed Abdellah, Khaled Shahat, Mohamed Salah, Sadek Mostafa, Ahmed Elwassief, Attef Aboelfotoh, Hafez Abdelhafeez and 1 more

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ashraf SaidDepartment of Internal Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
Ashraf Elbahrawy
Mohamed Alfiomy
Mohamed Abdellah
Khaled Shahat
Mohamed Salah
Sadek Mostafa
Ahmed Elwassief
Attef Aboelfotoh
Hafez Abdelhafeez
Assem El-Sherif
Al-Azhar University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 55-year-old Egyptian woman with chronic hepatitis C undergoing treatment with pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN) alfa-2a plus ribavirin was referred to our hospital on November 2010 with prolonged easy fatigability and an attack of syncope; she had no prior history of autoimmune disorders or allergy. Laboratory investigations documented the presence of Peg-IFN induced autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and autoimmune thyroiditis. Intravenous γ globulin (IVGG) failed to correct the autoimmune process; on the other hand steroid therapy dramatically corrected both haematological and thyroid values, and step down the immune process. Our report indicated that Peg-IFN de novo-induce autoimmune haemolysis, documenting a previous report. IVGG failed to step down the immune process in our case.

Indexed as

Anemia, Hemolytic, AutoimmuneAntiviral AgentsDiagnosis, DifferentialDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleHepatitis C, ChronicHumansImmunoglobulins, IntravenousInterferon-alphaMiddle AgedPolyethylene GlycolsRecombinant ProteinsThyroiditis, AutoimmuneAntiviral AgentsImmunoglobulins, IntravenousInterferon-alphapeginterferon alfa-2aPolyethylene GlycolsRecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID22688484
PMCPMC3158342
OpenAlexW2029590925

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