Journal Club: Transfusion of Prophylactic Antigen-Matching Red Blood Cells

Hanadi AlJedani, MD
Transfusion Medicine Physician Trainee
Dalhousie University

• Transfusion dependent patients and transfusion protocols for transfusion-dependent patients
• Discussion of practice of transfusion of antigen matching red blood cells

1. Y. Lin, A. Saskin, R. A. Wells, M. Lenis, A. Mamedov, J. Callum and R. Buckstein. Prophylactic RhCE and Kell antigen matching: impact on alloimmunization in transfusion-dependent patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. Vox Sanguinis (2017) 112, 79–86

Note: The session is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.