Red cell transfusions for patients with sickle cell disease: do we have more to learn?

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Review

Rachelle Nuss. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2010 Apr.

. 2010 Apr;54(4):499-500.

doi: 10.1002/pbc.22353.

No abstract available

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HLA alloimmunization is associated with RBC antibodies in multiply transfused patients with sickle cell disease.
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Red cell exchange does not appear to increase the rate of allo- and auto-immunization in chronically transfused children with sickle cell disease.
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rs660 polymorphism in Ro52 (SSA1; TRIM21) is a marker for age-dependent tolerance induction and efficiency of alloimmunization in sickle cell disease.
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Challenges of alloimmunization in patients with haemoglobinopathies.
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