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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