Four patients aged 62 to 78 years with the cold agglutinin syndrome have been treated intermittently or continuously with chlorambucil for one to seven years. This resulted in a decreased susceptibility to the cold so that Raynaud phenomena and hemoglobinuria were avoided in the winter. The hemoglobin value increased, the concentration of IgM-globulin in serum was nearly normalized, and the cold agglutinin titre decreased by a factor 3-30. The thermal amplitude was lowered by 2.2-7.2°C.

Topics:
chlorambucil, cold hemagglutinin disease, cold agglutinins, common cold, globulins, hemoglobin, hemoglobinuria, immunoglobulin m, raynaud disease, immunologic thermal amplitude
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© 1970 by American Society of Hematology, Inc.
1970
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