Transfusion Medicine

August Blood Group Antigen Is Clinically Significant

Published in Blood Weekly, March 6th, 1995

The August (At) blood group antigen has clinical significance in transfusion medicine, researchers concluded.

Data on the At blood group antigen and clinical significance of anti-At^a are scarce. Originally described in 1967, the At(a-) phenotype is a rare, inherited red cell (RBC) phenotype.

J.D. Sweeney, American Red Cross Blood Services, Mid-Atlantic Region, and Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, and colleagues described a case that involved an example of anti-At^a in which hemolytic disease of the newborn was absent but which required consideration for the purposes of transfusion practice ("At(a-) Phenotype: ...

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