Variant RH alleles and Rh immunisation in patients with sickle cell disease

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 72-77

  Sippert, Emilia ^a   Fujita, Claudia R ^b   Machado, Debora ^a   Guelsin, Glaucia ^a   Gaspardi, Ane C ^a   Pellegrino, Jordão ^a   Gilli, Simone ^a   Saad, Sara S T O ^a   Castilho, Lilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

RH alleles; Rh alloimmunisation; RHD and RHCE variants; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; RHESUS ANTIBODY; RHESUS ANTIGEN; RHESUS C ANTIBODY; RHESUS D ANTIBODY; RHESUS E ANTIBODY; ALLOANTIBODY; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; RHCE PROTEIN, HUMAN; RHO(D) ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHESUS IMMUNIZATION; SEROLOGY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SURVIVAL RATE; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE;

ALLELES; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; MALE; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 84922311651     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2014.0324-13     Document Type: Article

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