Refractory hyperhaemolysis in a patient with β-thalassaemia major

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-57

  Grainger, J D ^a   Makar, Y ^b   McManus, A ^b   Wynn, R ^a  

^a ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Manchester Blood Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

thalassaemia; Hyperhaemolysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; LIVING DONOR; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPLENECTOMY;

AUTOANTIBODIES; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COMPLEMENT C3D; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; LIVING DONORS; NUCLEAR FAMILY; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 0035123321     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2001.00278.x     Document Type: Article

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