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Prevalence of allo-immunization anti-HLA and anti-integrin alphaIIbbeta3 in Glanzmann Thromboasthenia patients.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Sept 2010
Santoro C, Rago A, Biondo F, Conti L, Pulcinelli F, Laurenti L, Perrone M P, Baldacci E, Leporace A, Mazzucconi M G
Abstract excerpt
SUMMARY: Platelet transfusions, main therapy of Glanzmann Thromboasthenia (GT), can induce an allo-immunization against human leucocyte antigen and integrin alphaIIbbeta3. We have investigated in our GT patients the rate of allo-immunization and of refractoriness to platelet transfusions. From 1975 until December 2005, we have followed 17 GT patients: 14 type 1, 3 variant type; nine females, eight males; median...
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