Red cell survival test in a patient with anti-f alloantibody.

Anti-S Alloantibody Underlying Pan Agglutinating Autoantibody in a Patient of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Anti-D in a D-positive patient: autoantibody or alloantibody?

Blood Transfus 2007; 5: 44 DOI 10.2450/2007.0008-07 © SIMTI Servizi Srl The D antigen of the Rh blood system is the most important red blood cell antigen determined by a protein, because D-negative individuals are easily anti-D immunised. Individuals, whose cells have a qualitative variation of the D antigen (partial D) lacking one or more components of the D antigen, are said to have a partial...

Linezolid Induced Twice Pure Red Cell Aplasia in a Patient with Central Nervous System Infection after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

Linezolid (LZD), severed as the first oxazolidinone antibiotic, was active against multidrug-resistant gram-positive strains. LZD can induce thrombocytopenia, anemia and leukocytopenia. Currently, reports on pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) cases induced by LZD are relatively rare [4-7]. In this paper, we reported a patient with PRCA twice induced by LZD. A 37-year-old man was diagnosed with myelody...

Frequency of red blood cell alloantibody in Kuwaiti population.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the alloimmunization against red blood cells (RBC) among Kuwaiti population. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective analysis of RBC alloimmunization among 179,045 Kuwaiti patients, pregnant women, and allogeneic blood donors was conducted for the period of 1992-2001. The frequency of 24 alloantibody specificities from 1,278 alloimmunized Kuwaitis wa...

Linezolid Induced Twice Pure Red Cell Aplasia in a Patient with Central Nervous System Infection after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

Linezolid (LZD), severed as the first oxazolidinone antibiotic, was active against multidrug-resistant gram-positive strains. LZD can induce thrombocytopenia, anemia and leukocytopenia. Currently, reports on pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) cases induced by LZD are relatively rare [4-7]. In this paper, we reported a patient with PRCA twice induced by LZD. A 37-year-old man was diagnosed with myelody...