Red cell incompatibility in vivo
The first person to transfuse a human being was Professor J Denis who, with the help of a surgeon Mr C Emmerez, gave transfusions of lamb’s blood or calf’s blood…
The first person to transfuse a human being was Professor J Denis who, with the help of a surgeon Mr C Emmerez, gave transfusions of lamb’s blood or calf’s blood…
According to RE Rosenfield (1977, supplemented by personal communication), L Buchbinder, a PhD student of Karl Landsteiner, had discovered Rh polymorphism at some time in the 1930s, but Landsteiner had…
The Effect of Splenectomy Following splenectomy, red cell survival has been found to be normal in humans and rabbits (Miescher 1956a; McFadzean et al. 1958), although slightly prolonged in rats…
), Woodrow and Donohoe (1968); 2 (), E Borst-Eilers (personal communication); 3 (•), Poulain and Huchet (1971). In Figure 12.1, the magnitude of TPH on a logarithmic scale is plotted…
Although numbers up to 56 are included in Table 5.1, some are omitted: 13–16, because they were given to RhA, etc., no longer regarded as distinct antigens; and 25, because…
Currently, six parenteral iron preparations are available, although carboxymaltose (Injectafer) is not licensed in the US (Table 18.1). No randomized trials have compared the safety and efficacy of these agents…
The blood was collected by gravity in uncoated glass bottles containing acid citrate dextrose, solution A (NIH and USP) as an anti-coagulant. The bottles were then stored at 5°C for…
The regular presence of anti-A and anti-B is made use of in the routine determination of ABO blood groups; in addition to testing red cells for A and B antigens,…
There is a wide variation in the recommended minimum interval between donations. For example in the US, in line with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, the interval can be as…
If normal values are substituted in the equations above, a healthy adult male of 70 kg body weight will have an O2 delivery of about 1000 ml/min. His basal O2…