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The presence of warm-reactive autoantibodies can present significant challenges in patients who need red blood cell transfusions. Nevertheless, patient history can be key in determining the risk of transfusion under such circumstances. Solve it!
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Van Buren NL. Autoimmune hemolytic anemias. In: Shaz BH, Hillyer CD, Gil MR, editors. Transfusion medicine and hemostasis. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 2018. p. 313–22.
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Friedman, M.T., West, K.A., Bizargity, P., Annen, K., Gur, H.D., Hilbert, T. (2023). Just Another Autoantibody. In: Immunohematology, Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, and Cellular Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14638-1_25
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