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Transfusion and alloimmunization in sickle cell disease. The Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease.
Blood - 1 Oct 1990
Rosse W F, Gallagher D, Kinney T R, Castro O, Dosik H, Moohr J, Wang W, Levy P S
Abstract excerpt
In 1,814 patients with sickle cell disease who had been transfused, the overall rate of alloimmunization to erythrocyte antigens was 18.6%. The rate of alloimmunization in this group appears to be an explicit function of the number of transfusions received because it increases exponentially with increasing numbers of transfusions. Alloimmunization usually occurred with less than 15 transfusions, although the rate...
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