In his clinical role, Woodruff started a vascular surgery program and worked with the use of immunotherapy as a cancer treatment as well as the treatment of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia.
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Anti-LW has also been associated with cases of warm type autoimmune haemolytic anaemia; Philip Levine suggested that it was the most common antibody in cases of AIHA with a positive Coombs test.
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The research group's principal investigations concerned immunological tolerance ( the body's acceptance of tissues, as opposed to rejection ), autoimmune haemolytic anaemia ( especially in mice ), and immune responses to cancer in various animals.
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Antibodies to these specific antigens have been associated with a number of conditions : anti M2, M4, M8, and M9 are associated with primary bilary cirrhosis; M2-autoimmune hepatitis; M1-syphilis; M3-drug-induced lupus erythematosus; M6-drug-induced hepatitis; M7-cardiomyopathy, myocarditis; M5-systemic lupus erythematosus and undifferentiated collagenosis, autoimmune haemolytic anaemia.