Aplastic anemia after Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection: a report of two cases

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 1999 Jul-Aug;21(4):299-302. doi: 10.1097/00043426-199907000-00011.

Abstract

Two very unusual cases of aplastic anemia complicating mycoplasma infection are described. Each patient had preexisting hematologic abnormalities at the time of the infection: reactive hemophagocytic syndrome in one, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia associated with cold autoantibodies in the other. This adds another entity to the protean manifestations of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anemia, Aplastic / microbiology*
  • Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune / complications*
  • Child
  • Female
  • Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell / complications*
  • Humans
  • Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / complications*