Transfusion Medicine
Reports outline transfusion medicine study findings from Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University
Published in Blood Weekly, April 9th, 2009
A new study, 'Management of emergency cardiac surgery in a patient with alloanti-Ge2,' is now available. "Transfusion management of patients alloimmunized against high-prevalence erythrocyte antigens is often problematic in emergency situations. In these patients, incompatible transfusion may be less harmful for the patient than delaying surgery, especially if the antibody is not clinically significant," scientists writing in the journal Transfusion Medicine report.
"We report an untransfused 75-year-old Caucasian man (blood group O) with an alloantibody against the Gerbich-2 (Ge2) antigen who required emergency cardiac surgery. Because cross-match compatible...
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