PURPOSE The impact of ABO blood group on the survival of patients with ovarian cancer remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of the ABO blood group in ovarian cancer patients. METHODS 256 ovarian cancer patients who received a cytoreductive surgery were retrospectively reviewed. The prognostic impact of the ABO blood group with respect to overall surviva...

Donor shortage remains the single most important factor limiting the success of transplantation medicine. In face of this unrelenting pressure, otherwise prohibitive immunological barriers are increasingly accepted, such as ABO incompatibility of a kidney from an available living donor. Treatment protocols for such situations involve varying combinations of B-cell depletion, removal of isohemag...

A case report of discolored anterior primary teeth is presented. Medical history and clinical findings suggest an etiology of hemolytic anemia and jaundice secondary to ABO blood group incompatibility. There are no previous reports of tooth discoloration resulting from ABO blood group incompatibility.

Although a number of studies have demonstrated the influence of ABO blood group on plasma levels of von Willebrand factor (VWF), the nature of this association and its clinical importance is still largely unknown.In this review, the most recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms by which ABO blood group determines plasma VWF levels and their clinical impact will be discussed.

BACKGROUND Traditional ABO blood group serology is based on the immunoreactivity of antisera with the carbohydrate A, B and H antigens. Progress in the molecular biology of the ABO system has recognized the molecular basis of the red cell (RBC) antigens and has provided a genetic model for ABO polymorphism at the molecular level. Recently, this genetic model was tested in a large number of indi...

BACKGROUND ABO blood group antigens are formed by terminal glycosylation of glycoproteins and glycolipid chains present on cell surfaces. Glycosylation modulates all kinds of cell-to-cell interactions and this may be relevant in malaria pathophysiology, in which adhesion has been increasingly implicated in disease severity. This study was done to determine the association between ABO phenotypes...

1. Blood-clotting mechanism has been analyzed by a procedure which devotes a separate experimental step to each of the three primary reactions: 1. Prothrombokinase --> thrombokinase 2. Prothrombin --> thrombin 3. Fibrinogen --> fibrin 2. Activation of prothrombin by thrombokinase followed the course of a unimolecular reaction, and the concentration of thrombokinase determined the initial rate. ...