“…Anaemia in patients with scleroderma is most of ten caused by complications, such as iron deficiency, intestinal malabsorption, renal failure and micro-angiopathic haemolysis [1,2], When thrombocytopenia develops during the course of scleroderma, micro-an giopathy or an overlap syndrome with SLE is consid ered [2]. Since the first report of auto-immune haemo lytic anaemia in scleroderma by Fudenberg and Wintrobe [3] in 1955, only about 10 cases have been re corded [1,2,[4][5][6][7][8][9], and auto-immune thrombocytope nia seems to be even rarer.…”