Hemolytic Anemia - Treatment

Treatment

Definitive therapy depends on the cause:

  • Symptomatic treatment can be given by blood transfusion, if there is marked anemia.
  • In severe immune-related hemolytic anemia, steroid therapy is sometimes necessary.
  • Sometimes splenectomy can be helpful where extravascular hemolysis is predominant (i.e. most of the red blood cells are being removed by the spleen).

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