Article
Another potential source of error in Rh-hr typing.
Transfusion - 1 Jan 2000
Reid M E, Ellisor S S, Frank B A
Abstract excerpt
Three cases are presented in which the presence of sodium caprylate dependent albumin auto-agglutinins in the patients' sera resulted in erroneous Rh-hr phenotyping of their erythrocytes. In the initial testing, the albumin control was negative in each case. Since one of the cases was an Rh0(D) negative individual whose red blood cells might have been classified as Rh0(D) positive, a study was made using routine...
Topics
- Humans
- Isoantibodies
- Phenotype
- Rh-Hr Blood-Group System
- Serotyping
- Serum Albumin