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Complement mediated hemolysis in a child with COVID-19 infection
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  • Seda Şahin,
  • turan bayhan,
  • Gülsüm İclal Bayhan,
  • Nese Yarali
Seda Şahin
Ministry of Health Ankara City Hospital

Corresponding Author:sedamlh@hotmail.com

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turan bayhan
Ministry of Health Ankara City Hospital
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Gülsüm İclal Bayhan
Ministry of Health Ankara City Hospital
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Nese Yarali
Ministry of Health Ankara City Hospital
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Abstract

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a member of Beta coronaviruses that became pandemic by March of 2020. The hematological manifestations related to COVID-19 are mostly lymphopenia, thrombocytopenia, elevated D-dimer, and ferritin levels. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) associated with COVID-19 has been described rarely; however, to our knowledge, complement-mediated autoimmune hemolytic anemia (CM-AIHA) has not been reported in children. Here, we report a child with COVID-19 associated with CM-AIHA.