Multiple choice

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection can lead to which of the following diseases?

  1. Hashimoto's thyroiditis

  2. Agranulocytosis

  3. Cold hemagglutinin disease

  4. Thrombocytopenic purpura

  5. Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
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Explanation

Patients with cold hemagglutinin disease have monoclonal anti-blood group I, leading to an autoimmune hemolytic anemia. It consists of warm-, cold- or mixed-reactive antibody types that are directed against antigens on the red blood cell surface. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection can cause cold hemagglutinin disease.

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