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The Transfusion Reaction

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A 38-year-old man who underwent craniotomy surgery 2 months ago presents for outpatient red blood cell (RBC) transfusion of two units for symptomatic anemia and hemoglobin (Hgb) level of 7.4 g/dL. The patient had received multiple RBC transfusions during the craniotomy surgery and postoperatively in recovery; all of the RBC units were issued by immediate-spin (IS) crossmatch. A type and screen sample (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [EDTA] anticoagulant) is submitted to the blood bank along with a request for the two units of RBCs.

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  1. Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USA

    Mark T. Friedman & Jeffrey S. Jhang

  2. Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Kamille A. West

  3. Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Peyman Bizargity

  4. Department of Pathology, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

    Kyle Annen

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Friedman, M.T., West, K.A., Bizargity, P., Annen, K., Jhang, J.S. (2018). The Transfusion Reaction. In: Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90960-8_13

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