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Do you routinely obtain bone marrow biopsy in newly diagnosed autoimmune hemolytic anemia when working up potential underlying etiologies?

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Do you obtain a bone marrow biopsy in working up underlying etiology for autoimmune hemolytic anemia?

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Thank you for the question. For patients with cold agglutin disease, I perform a bone marrow biopsy and flow cytometry at diagnosis/before initiating therapy on all patients.

I base the decision whether to do a bone marrow biopsy after initial diagnosis of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia based on w...

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