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Posted On : 21 Jun 2007

Two year old female, known case of PURE RED CELL APLASIA was receiving blood tranfusion since birth. His blood group was O plus ve confirmed at many places including tertiary care centers. Last time when his blood group it was found to be B plus ve and he was even tranfused B plus ve blood. Blood group was reconfirmed and found to be B plus ve. What could be explanation?

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Abdulrahman

alloimmunization

17 years ago

Dr.Hasan

this rbcs antigen of the donars blood

17 years ago

Dr. S. Jayamurty

don't know

17 years ago

vujosevicmilena

politransfusio

17 years ago

pediatriconcall

FIrst and foremost get the blood group rechecked. If it is confirmed to be the same, it may be due to the possiblitiy of immature blood group antigen formation on the patient's RBCS which can be seen in the neonatal period as well as upto 4 months of age. Thus on testing with agglutination method, absence of A and B antigen may lead to a false blood group test. Hence it is advised that when transfusing a child upto 4 months of age, one must crossmatch with the mothers blood group. Baby's blood group antigens are well formed by 4 months of age after which the cross match should be done with the baby's blood group.

17 years ago

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