West NC, Jenkins JA, Johnston BR, Modi N. Interdonor incompatibility due to anti-Kell antibody undetectable by automated antibody screening.
Vox Sang 1986;
50:174-6. [PMID:
3716289 DOI:
10.1111/j.1423-0410.1986.tb04873.x]
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Abstract
A unit of whole donor blood, the plasma of which contained anti-Kell antibody, was transfused into a Kell-negative patient who had received a unit of Kell-positive blood 4 weeks previously. A haemolytic transfusion reaction ensued. The antibody had gone undetected in routine automated screening of the donor blood. Automated antibody detection techniques do not offer reliable detection of anti-Kell antibodies.
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