KROK 1 2019 – Question 149 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
Antileukocytic antibodies are detected in the blood of a patient with leukopenia. What type of Coombs-Gell hypersensitivity reaction developed in this case?
- A. Cytotoxic
- B. Immune complex-mediated
- C. Anaphylactic
- D. Delayed-type hypersensitivity
- E. Stimulating
Hint
Consider what the antibodies are bound to, and how that determines which Gell-Coombs mechanism ends up damaging the cell.
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