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A patient’s blood type can dictate availability of blood products necessary for treatment. Solve it!

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  1. Department of Pathology, NYU Lagone Health, Mineola, NY, USA

    Mark T. Friedman

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

    Kamille A. West

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Northwell Health System, Great Neck, NY, USA

    Peyman Bizargity

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

    Kyle Annen

  5. Department of Pathology, Northwell Health System, Greenvale, NY, USA

    H. Deniz Gur

  6. Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

    Timothy Hilbert

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Friedman, M.T., West, K.A., Bizargity, P., Annen, K., Gur, H.D., Hilbert, T. (2023). Absolutely Necessary!. In: Immunohematology, Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, and Cellular Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14638-1_35

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