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Other names people use for this condition
  • Autoimmune hemolytic anemia and autoimmune thrombocytopenia
  • Evan syndrome

Evans syndrome
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Evans syndrome is an autoimmune disorder in which the body makes antibodies that destroy the red blood cells, platelets and white blood cells. Patients are diagnosed with thrombocytopenia (a blood disorder characterized by too few platelets (which help blood clot) in the blood) and Coombs' positive hemolytic anemia (an abnormality of the immune system that causes red blood cells to be destroyed prematurely) and have no other known underlying etiology. The patients may be affected by low levels of all three types of blood cells at one time, or may only have problems with one or two of them.[1]

References
  1. What is Evans Syndrome?. Evans Syndrome Research and Support . Available at: http://www.evanssyndrome.org/#evans. Accessed February 6, 2009.

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