When would you initiate exchange transfusion in babesiosis and significant hemolysis?
Is parasitemia >10% and severe hemolysis with Hb less than 7 enough to initiate this?
Answer from: at Community Practice
There are no studies that answer this question. Some people have extrapolated from the use of exchange transfusions for severe malaria to consider using this treatment with babesiosis, another intraerythrocytic protozoan infection. Unfortunately, though there are some studies on malaria, the results...