Affiliation:
1. Department of Transfusion Medicine, Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, Tamil Nadu
2. Department of Transfusion Medicine, Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, Tamil Nadu.
Abstract
Most of the inpatients admitted in our hospital for the evaluation of anemia needs blood transfusion as part of the treatment. A total of 719 cases
from medical ward received blood transfusion from the period of January 2016 to December 2016. Irrespective of the provisional diagnosis of
case, we performed Direct Coombs test, Indirect Coombs test, Autocontrol and 3 cell antibody panel from the samples received for cross matching.
Of that 532 case were females, 187 cases were male patients. Our transfusion protocol included identication of presence of antibodies including
the following antibodies: A, B, C, c, D, E, e, Lea, Leb, K, Fya, Fyb, Jka, Jkb, M, N, S, s, by using 3 cell panel. Screening for antibodies was
performed before transfusion, according to standard antiglobulin techniques. If screening was positive, the antibody was identied by means of
panels of reagent red cells, identication was conrmed by a regional reference laboratory. We identied most of the female patients between the
age group 20 to 30 with chronic anemia were found to have DCTpositive hemolytic anemia. Few patients had only DCTpositive without abnormal
antibodies and some had DCTnegative AIHA.
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