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The Perils of Transfusing the Sickle Cell Patient

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Sickle cell anemia patients present challenges and complexities in resolving immunohematology testing which can lead to severe transfusion complications. Solve it!

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  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National healthcare safety network biovigilance component, hemovigilance module surveillance protocol v2.6, Atlanta, GA. March 2021. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/PDFs/Biovigilance/BV-HV-protocol-current.pdf Accessed 4 Jan 2022.

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  • Klein HG, Anstee DJ. Haemolytic transfusion reactions. In: Klein HG, Anstee DJ, editors. Mollison’s blood transfusion in clinical medicine. 12th ed. West Sussex: Wiley; 2014. p. 472.

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  • Win N, Doughty H, Telfer P, Wild BJ, Pearson TC. Hyperhemolytic transfusion reaction in sickle cell disease. Transfusion. 2001;41(3):323–8.

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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). The Perils of Transfusing the Sickle Cell Patient. In: Immunohematology, Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, and Cellular Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14638-1_63

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