As more and more people pay attention to U.S. maternal mortality rates—the highest in the world among developed nations—more researchers are investigating what’s driving so many deaths of women who ...

Background: Minor adverse reactions following transfusion of blood components to cancer patients are not uncommon. Reporting these minor reactions to the transfusion service needs a careful evaluation ...

A patient had anaphylactic transfusion reactions when transfused with small amounts (10 ml or less) of blood from four consecutive donors. Antibodies to erythrocytes or leukocytes could not be found, ...

A 59-year-old man with a history of IgG kappa multiple myeloma presented to an outpatient facility for evaluation of left hip pain, which was found to be a pathologic fracture. He has had 2 autologous ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During pregnancy, alterations occur in the mother’s immune system to protect the fetus, and women with a history ...

Blood transfusion, which are usually life-saving procedures, can become life-threatening if they trigger an allergic reaction. However, the mechanisms behind allergic transfusion reactions are not ...

An illness characterized by jaundice, aplastic anemia and striking histiocytic reaction in the bone marrow developed in an eight-week-old infant who survived three intrauterine transfusions for Rh ...

Allergic transfusion reactions (ATRs), a potentially life-threatening side effect of blood transfusions with unclear mechanisms, may be linked to food allergies in pediatric patients as per a recent ...