OMITTING THE ANTIGLOBULIN CROSSMATCH

Evaluation of the clinical utility of maternal alloantibody screening as a surrogate to antiglobulin crossmatch procedures in resource limited settings

Aims: In resource limited settings, cross matching procedures are usually limited to the conventional antiglobulin technique. Pre­ transfusion screening for red cell alloantibodies are not carried out routinely. The study was aimed at evaluating the usefulness of antibody screening as a surrogate to antiglobulin crossmatch procedure. Methods: A total 250 pregnant women attending the antenatal c...

The present and future crossmatch

The crossmatch has been used as the final phase of pretransfusion testing for over half a century.’ However, during this time, there have been frequent modifications of the procedure, as well as differences of opinion as to the extent of its performance. In recent years, modifications have focused on its abbreviation. When the American Association of Blood Banks first published its standards in...

Brody curves omitting hyperplanes

A Brody curve, a.k.a. normal curve, is a holomorphic map f from the complex line C to the complex projective space P such that the family of its translations {z 7→ f(z + a) : a ∈ C} is normal. We prove that Brody curves omitting n hyperplanes in general position have growth order at most one, normal type. This generalizes a result of Clunie and Hayman who proved it for n =

A note on omitting the replacement schema

Positive virtual crossmatch with negative flow crossmatch results in two cases.

Pre-transplant (Tx) presence of HLA antibodies (HLA-Ab) especially donor specific antibodies (DSA) has been correlated with post-Tx rejection. While crossmatch (XM) is the specific method to identify DSA, logistical reasons prevent performing a prospective XM in all transplants. In such cases DSA as identified by solid-phase assay (SPA) are being used to perform a virtual crossmatch (VXM). We p...