Treatment With Intravenous Immunoglobulin and Steroids May Correct Severe Anemia in Hyperhemolytic Transfusion Reactions: Case Report and Literature Review

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-67

  Win, Nay ^a,b   Sinha, Smita ^a,b   Lee, Edmond ^a,b   Mills, Wendy ^a,b  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; BILIRUBIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP O; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COOMBS TEST; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERHEMOLYTIC TRANSFUSION REACTION; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; STEROIDS;

EID: 70949102913     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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