INTRODUCTION Determination of ABO and Rh blood group types are clinically important for various purposes including transfusion. There is a wide regional, racial, ethnic variability among these groups. We aim to determine the patterns in patients attending tertiary care center Western Nepal. MATERIAL AND METHODS This hospital-based cross-sectional study involved 600 visiting Universal College Me...

Background: ABO incompatibility is the most common cause of immune hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) and in most cases is not dangerous. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of ABO-HDN and its effects on neonatal blood parameters in a population of patients referred to some training hospitals in Iran. Materials and methods: In This cross-sectional study, All newborns (a tot...

The distribution of 16 antigens of the HLA-A and 15 antigens of the HLA-B series of HLA system, the blood groups ABO, and Rh antigens were studied in 40 alcoholics with cirrhosis, 18 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and in normal control subjects. The group of alcoholics with cirrhosis showed a significantly high frequency of HLA-B13 (corrected P less than 0.01) when compared with normal subjects,...