Alloimmunization in Chinese with warm autoimmune haemolytic anaemia - Incidence and characteristics

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 141-143

  So, C C ^a   Wong, K F ^a   Yu, P H ^a   Kwan, A M Y ^a   Lee, A W C ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Alloantibodies; Alloimmunization; Autoantibodies; Chinese; Direct antiglobulin test; Warm type

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; ANTIIDIOTYPIC ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COOMBS TEST; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COOMBS' TEST; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; ISOANTIBODIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034030711     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2000.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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