differential diagnosis
Last reviewed 01/2018
- other causes of microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia: ÿ þ disseminated intravascular coagulation - differentiate on basis of normal coagulation tests in TTP
- prosthetic valve haemolysis
- metastatic adenocarcinoma
- malignant hypertension
- vasculitis
- Evan's syndrome:
- red cell fragments absent from peripheral blood smear
- spherocytes present
Ref: Schroeder (1991). Current: med. diag. and tr. Lange.