Red blood cell alloimmunization after blood transfusion / Henk Schonewille.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schonewille, Henk, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blood--Transfusion--Safety measures.

Blood.

Blood--Transfusion--Netherlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An investigation of the safety implications of pre-transfusion policy which requires the patient's serum to be tested for the presence of irregular red blood cell antibodies.

Contents:

Contents; 1. General Introduction; 2. Review of the Literature on red Cell Alloimmunization; 3. Alloimmunization to red Blood Cell Antigens after Universal Leucodepletion. A regional multicentre retrospective study; 4. The importance of antibodies against loq-incidence RBC Antigens in complete and abbreviated cross-matching; 5. Alloimmunization after blood transfusion in patients with hametologic and oncologic diseases; 6. Additional RBC alloantibodies after blood transfusion in a nonhematological alloimmunizaed patient cohort: is it time to take precautionary measures?

7. High additional maternal red cell alloimmuzation after RH- and K-Matched intrautertine intravascular transfusions for homolytic disease of the fetus8. RBC antibody persistence; 9. Red vlood cell alloantibodies after transfusion: Factors influencing incidence and specificity; 10. general discussion; SUMMARY; SAMENVATTING; CURRICULUM VITAE; PUBLICATIONS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612387357

9781282387355

1282387359

9789048502172

9048502179

OCLC:

646885623