PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jawed, Memoona
AU  - Hart, Elizabeth
AU  - Saeed, Malik
TI  - Haemolytic anaemia: a consequence of COVID-19
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2020-238118
DP  - 2020 Dec 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - e238118
VI  - 13
IP  - 12
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/13/12/e238118.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/13/12/e238118.full
SO  - BMJ Case Reports2020 Dec 01; 13
AB  - A man in his early 50s presented with jaundice, mild shortness of breath on exertion and dark urine. He had had coryzal symptoms 2 weeks prior to admission. Medical history included obstructive sleep apnoea and hypertension. His initial blood tests showed a mild hyperbilirubinaemia and acute kidney injury stage 1. Chest X-ray and CT pulmonary angiogram were negative for features suggestive of COVID-19. He later developed a drop in haemoglobin and repeat bloods showed markedly raised lactate dehydrogenase and positive direct antiglobulin test. These results were felt to be consistent with a haemolytic anaemia. A nasopharyngeal swab came back positive for COVID-19. We suspect the cause of his symptoms was an autoimmune haemolytic anaemia secondary to COVID-19 which has recently been described in European cohorts.