A patient with acute leukemia who typed as AintB received 10 packs of platelets of group 0. Subsequent transfusion of A1B blood resulted in a hemolytic transfusion reaction. Anti-A1 was detected in the serum and on the red blood cells of a post-transfusion sample. This anti-A1 reacted with the transfused A1B red blood cells and other A1 cells, but not with the patient's pretransfusion red blood cells. The plasma of the transfused platelet concentrates had a high titer of immune anti-A.

ABO Blood-Group System↗

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Anti-Kell (K1) in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

A transiently occurring anti-Kell antibody was observed in a 2 1/2-year-old child who had idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura after recovery from an upper respiratory tract infection. The antibody was probably of the IgM class. There was no history of prior blood transfusion.

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Subclinical hemolytic disease of the newborn associated with IgG anti-Lub.

An anti-Lub antibody with a titer of 128 to 256 was found in a pregnant woman. The antibody was IgG of the IgG1 subclass. Two newborns of successive pregnancies were free of clinical hemolytic disease of the newborn. The failure of this antibody to cause clinical hemolytic disease is ascribed to the weak expression of the Lub antigen on cord red blood cells.

Antibody Affinity↗