Abstract
A 62-year-old male is admitted with lower gastrointestinal bleeding and symptomatic anemia, his hemoglobin (Hgb) level is 5.0 g/dL. The patient has a known history of a warm autoantibody but no alloantibodies and was transfused two units of red blood cells (RBCs) 1 month ago at your hospital.
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Friedman, M., West, K., Bizargity, P. (2016). Differential Alloadsorption. In: Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22342-1_16
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