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Screening with monoclonal anti-Fy3 to provide blood for phenotype-matched transfusions for patients with sickle cell disease.
Transfusion - 1 Apr 1997
Sandler S G, Mallory D, Wolfe J S, Byrne P, Lucas D M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In the United States, there is a shortage of blood group phenotype-matched red cells (RBCs) for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). A protocol designed to supply phenotype-matched RBCs for these patients by combining the recruitment of African American blood donors and automated testing of RBCs for these patients for the presumptive Fy(a-b-) phenotype using monoclonal anti-Fy3 was evaluated....
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