Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is one of the most frequently performed clinical procedures and therapies to improve tissue oxygen delivery in hospitalized patients worldwide.
Hong-Yang Li, Kai Guo, Kai Guo, Kai Guo
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Background: Thalassemia is an inherited disease with anemia and hemolysis. Blood transfusion is a routine treatment for thalassemia patients; alloimmunization is one of the complications of blood transfusion, which is very serious for these patients ...
Farzad Mollahoseini Foomani+7 more
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Prevalence of Weak D Antigen in Rh Negative Blood Group: An Experience at a Tertiary Blood Centre in Bengaluru, Southern India [PDF]
Introduction: The Rh blood group system, consisting of more than 50 different antigens, is the most polymorphic among human blood types. Among them, D is the most important antigen. The incidence of weak (Du) antigens ranges from 0.2 to 1%.
Akriti Singh+3 more
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Distribution of ABO and rhesus (D) blood group antigens among blood donors at a tertiary care teaching hospital blood bank in south India [PDF]
Background: The ABO and Rhesus (Rh) blood group systems are important for transfusion of blood and its components, organ transplantation, genetic studies and in medico-legal issues.
Suresh B+4 more
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Doppler middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity measurement as diagnostic tool for fetal anemia after in-utero transfusions in red blood cell alloimmunisation [PDF]
Background/Aim. Doppler sonography of fetal middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity (MCA-PSV) can be used to predict fetal anemia and the need for in utero intravascular transfusion (IUIT) in red blood cell (RBC) alloimmunisation pregnancies.
Marjanović-Cvjetićanin Mirjana+5 more
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COVID-19 and blood groups: A six-months observational study in Ferrara, Italy
The current literature still gives a little information about the relationships between the ABO blood group system and the immune response to the virus or the different disease outcomes. Hypothesizing the presence of a predisposition by some blood groups
Salvatore Greco+8 more
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Background The Rhesus (Rh) blood group system is the next most clinically significant blood group system following the ABO blood group. Rh D-negative women are at risk of alloimmunization following exposure to Rh D-positive blood.
Tesfaye K. Kanko, Melat K. Woldemariam
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Major and minor subgroup profile of blood in patients receiving multiple transfusions and donors
OBJECTIVE: It was aimed to profile the blood subgroups of our region and to reveal the prevalence of auto/alloimmune sensitization in patients who had to undergo multiple erythrocyte transfusions and to establish the sensitization profile by screening ...
Mehmet Fatih Orhan+3 more
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Chemical and Serological Characteristics of Blood Group Antibodies in the Abo and Rh Systems [PDF]
Summary By means of chromatography on DEAE-cellulose utilizing elution with single, continuous gradients, blood group antibodies of the ABO system were separated into at least three regions, having extremely low, low, and high anionic binding capacities, respectively.
Mitsuo Yokoyama+3 more
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ABO Blood Group System and RH Factor
There are many systems which are used to classify blood group types in man, the most common types are MN, ABO and Rh blood group systems. Among the above mentioned types, ABO blood group system is most common which is used to classify blood group types. Austrian immunologist, Karl Landsteiner was the first person to give and describe the system in 1900
Farah Ashfaq, Sara Hayee, Saima Ahmed
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