Non-immune causes |
Hereditary |
Enzyme deficiencies (eg, deficiencies of G6PD, pyruvate kinase, glucose-phosphate isomerase, 5' nucleotidase) |
Hemoglobinopathies (eg, sickle cell disease, thalassemias, unstable hemoglobins) |
Membrane defects (eg, hereditary spherocytosis, hereditary elliptocytosis, hereditary stomatocytosis) |
Acquired |
Liver disease |
Hypersplenism |
Infections (eg, Bartonella, Babesia, malaria, clostridial sepsis) |
Oxidant agents (eg, dapsone, nitrites, aniline dyes) |
Toxins (eg, lead, copper, snake and spider bites) |
Infusion of a hypotonic solution |
Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (eg, TTP, HUS, aortic stenosis, prosthetic valve leak) |
Immune causes |
Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia |
Drug-induced immune hemolysis |
Transfusion reactions (eg, ABO incompatibility, alloantibodies) |
Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria |
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria |
Cold agglutinin disease |
Intravenous infusion of IVIG or anti-RhD immune globulin |