Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 139-141
Case Report
Jawed Asheer1, Gupta Sujoy2, Javed Rizwan3*, Basu Sabita3
1. Senior House Officer, Peterborough City Hospital, Peterborough, UK
2. Department of Urology,
3. Department of Transfusion Medicine, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India.
*Corresponding Author
E-mail: [email protected]
Blood group typing and antibody screening (T&S) is done on patients who may need transfusion of blood products, yet it was missed in a planned surgery case. A 60 years old female with left renal mass was posted for nephrectomy. Samples for T&S were sent to the blood bank the night before the surgery. The patient's blood group was “AB” negative and also had “C” antibody which led to incompatible cross-matches with donor units. An extensive search yielded in two cross-match compatible “AB” negative RBC units which were also negative for “C” antigen. It could be a surgeon's nightmare intraoperatively in the absence of ap-propriate blood units or the surgery could be delayed if not canceled. It is imperative for all institutions to make their own time frame for T&S in patients posted for surgery.
Keywords: Blood group, typing and antibody screening, pre-operative workup.
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