An Age-dependent ABO Discrepancy Between Mother And Baby Reveals A Novel Aweak Allele

Summary, in English

Discrepancies in ABO grouping arise due to different reasons, posing a threat to patient safety. Underlying causes include mixed-field agglutination after transfusion, chimerism, fetomaternal exchange, or inheritance of unusual alleles resulting in weak A/B antigen expression. Cord blood from the infant of a group A2 B mother typed as group O, H+. Samples were investigated to elucidate this conundrum.

• Author: Jill Storry; Jennifer Condon; Annika Hult; Andrew Harrison; René Jørgensen; Martin L Olsson
• Department/s: Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine; Transfusion Medicine
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 422-426
• Publication/Series: Transfusion
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 2
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25156869?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.12840
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Topic: Hematology
• Status: Published
• Research group: Transfusion Medicine
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1537-2995