<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Providing blood units for patients with an antibody to a high-prevalence antigen or with multiple common antibodies is a constant challenge to the blood banks. Finding a compatible donor requires extensive screening, which incurs a large amount of investment. In this article, we share our experience of organizing a rare donor inventory with limited resources, we include the strategy used for finding rare donors, and we share the difficulties found during the implementation of the approach and the results obtained. <italic><bold>Immunohematology</bold></italic><bold>2015;31:20–23.</bold></p></abstract>

Providing blood units for patients with an antibody to a high-prevalence antigen or with multiple common antibodies is a constant challenge to the blood banks. Finding a compatible donor requires extensive screening, which incurs a large amount of investment. In this article, we share our experience of organizing a rare donor inventory with limited resources, we include the strategy used for finding rare donors, and we share the difficulties found during the implementation of the approach and the results obtained. Immunohematology2015;31:20–23.

A simple approach to screen rare donors in Brazil

Immunohematology

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Providing blood units for patients with an antibody to a high-prevalence antigen or with multiple common antibodies is a constant challenge to the blood banks....

A simple approach to screen rare donors in Brazil

Article Category: Original Report

Publié en ligne: 26 oct. 2019

Pages: 20 - 23

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/immunohematology-2019-066

Mots clés
rare donor, high prevalence antigen, phenotyping, genotyping

© 2015 C.P. Arnoni et al., published by Sciendo

A simple approach to screen rare donors in Brazil

Article Category: Original Report

Publié en ligne: 26 oct. 2019

Pages: 20 - 23

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/immunohematology-2019-066

Mots clésrare donor, high prevalence antigen, phenotyping, genotyping

© 2015 C.P. Arnoni et al., published by Sciendo

Mots clés
rare donor, high prevalence antigen, phenotyping, genotyping