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The association of cytokine gene polymorphisms with febrile non-hemolytic transfusion reaction in multitransfused patients.
Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) - 1 Jun 2006
Addas-Carvalho M, Salles T S I, Saad S T O
Abstract excerpt
Cytokines are associated with inflammatory responses including febrile non-hemolytic transfusion reactions (FNHTR). Moreover, there are some polymorphisms of these cytokine genes associated with different levels of gene expression. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of inflammatory cytokine gene polymorphisms with the occurrence of FNHTR in multitransfused patients. We studied two...
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