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Year : 2011 | Volume
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Mismatched transfusion of 8 AB0-incompatible units of packed red blood cells in a patient with acute intermittent porphyria
Burkard Rudlof1, Burkhard Just2, Robert Deitenbeck2, Thomas Ehmann3
1 Klinikverbund St. Antonius und St. Josef Wuppertal, Institute for Anesthesia 2 Blood Service of the German Red Cross Centre for Transfusion Medicine Hagen 3 Department of General Surgery, Johanniter Krankenhaus Radevormwald
Correspondence Address:
Burkard Rudlof Institute for Anesthesia, Klinikverbund St. Antonius und St. Josef Wuppertal, Vogelsangstr 106, D-42109 Wuppertal, Germany
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DOI: 10.4103/1658-354X.76497
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We report on a patient with acute intermittent porphyria, who received 8 AB0 incompatible units of packed red blood cells in an emergency situation. She never showed any signs of severe intravascular haemolysis. The patient died after four weeks because of a multi-organ failure caused from the malpractice of the porphyria. The problems of bedside testing, mixing field reaction, fresh frozen plasma and molecular-genetic determination of bloodgroup were discussed. |
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