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      Frequency of Red Cell Alloimmunization and Autoimmunization in Thalassemia Patients: A Report from Eastern India

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          Introduction. Red blood cell (RBC) alloimmunization and autoimmunization remain a major problem in transfusion dependent thalassemic patients. There is a paucity of data on the incidence of RBC alloimmunization and autoimmunization in thalassemic patients from eastern part of India, as pretransfusion antibody screening is not routinely performed. Aims. To assess the incidence of RBC alloimmunization and autoimmunization in transfusion dependent thalassemic patients in eastern India. Materials and Methods. Total 500 thalassemia cases were evaluated. The antibody screening and identification were performed with commercially available panel cells (Diapanel, Bio-rad, Switzerland) by column agglutination method. To detect autoantibodies, autocontrol and direct antiglobulin tests were carried out using polyspecific coombs (IgG + C3d) gel cards in all patients. Results. A total of 28 patients developed RBC alloimmunization (5.6%) and 5 patients had autoantibodies (1%). Alloantibody against c had the highest incidence (28.57%) followed by E (21.42%). Five out of 28 (17.85%) patients had developed antibodies against both c and E. Conclusion. Data from this study demonstrate that the RBC alloantibody and autoantibody development rates are significant in our region. Thus, pretransfusion antibody screening needs to be initiated in eastern India in order to ensure safe transfusion practice.

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          Transfusion and alloimmunization in sickle cell disease. The Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease.

          J Moohr, Daphne Wang, H Dosik … (1990)
          In 1,814 patients with sickle cell disease who had been transfused, the overall rate of alloimmunization to erythrocyte antigens was 18.6%. The rate of alloimmunization in this group appears to be an explicit function of the number of transfusions received because it increases exponentially with increasing numbers of transfusions. Alloimmunization usually occurred with less than 15 transfusions, although the rate of alloimmunization continued to increase when more transfusions were given. The rate of alloimmunization was less in patients with hemoglobin SC disease and sickle-beta+ thalassemia because these patients had received fewer transfusions. Children less than 10 years old had a slightly lower rate of alloimmunization than patients in other age groups even after correction for the number of transfusions given. Women were more frequently alloimmunized than men; this was largely due to the fact that women received more transfusions than men, but in the age group 16 to 20 years the increase may have been due in part to alloimmunization owing to pregnancy. Forty-five percent of those alloimmunized made antibodies of only one specificity; 17% made four or more antibodies reacting with different antigens. Antibodies to the C and E antigens of the Rh group, the Kell antigen, and the Lewis antigens were most commonly made. These findings may be important in formulating a rational transfusion policy in sickle cell disease.
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            Clinical significance of RBC alloantibodies and autoantibodies in sickle cell patients who received transfusions.

            S Padmanabhan, V. Chandrasekaran, Carole Paley … (2001)
            The clinical significance of alloimmunization to RBC antigens in sickle cell patients was analyzed by a retrospective review of the records of pediatric and adult sickle cell patients who received transfusions and who were followed over a 10-year period. Charts of pediatric and adult sickle cell patients followed at Schneider Children's Hospital (SCH) and Long Island Jewish Medical Center between 1989 and 1999 were retrieved. Patients followed at SCH were classified as pediatric, regardless of age. Data on transfusion history, alloimmunization, and transfusion reactions from 1990 were retrieved from computerized blood bank records. Transfusion history, development of alloantibodies and autoantibodies, and transfusion reactions were correlated with clinical evidence of hemolysis or other adverse reactions from the charts. All patients received ABO- and Rh-compatible blood transfusions for which a partial or extended antigen match was not performed. Among pediatric patients, 29 percent developed clinically significant alloantibodies, and 8 percent developed autoantibodies. Seven patients developed delayed hemolytic and/or serologic transfusion reactions, two with hyperhemolysis, two with clinical evidence of hemolysis, and three with serologic evidence only. The two patients with hyperhemolysis had received extended antigen-matched RBC transfusions to provide blood compatible with their existing antibodies. Among adult patients, 47.0 percent developed significant alloantibodies, and 9.7 percent developed autoantibodies. Five incidences of delayed hemolytic and/or serologic transfusion reactions occurred, one with hyperhemolysis and four with serologic evidence only. The alloimmunization rate is 29 percent in pediatric and 47 percent in adult sickle cell patients when partial or extended RBC antigen match is not performed. However, the delayed serologic and/or hemolytic transfusion reactions did not result in severe clinical outcome in most instances. The most important adverse event was hyperhemolysis, which may be triggered by a transfusion, but was not prevented by matching for RBC antigens. In most instances, the cause of hyperhemolysis was multifactorial.
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              Recipient inflammation affects the frequency and magnitude of immunization to transfused red blood cells.

              C Hillyer, Laxmikant S. Deshpande, Jeanne Hendrickson … (2006)
              Most alloantigens on transfused red blood cells (RBCs) are weakly immunogenic, with only a 2 to 6 percent overall immunization rate even in patients receiving multiple transfusions. Although recipient genetics may contribute to responder and/or nonresponder status, in most cases HLA type does not predict humoral response to RBC antigens. In contrast, rates of alloimmunization do correspond to the underlying disease status of transfusion recipients, suggesting that acquired host factors may play an important role. In this context, it was hypothesized that the inflammatory status of a transfusion recipient would influence immunization to transfused RBCs. A novel murine model for alloimmunization to RBC antigens was developed with the mHEL mouse, which expresses hen egg lysozyme (HEL) as a model blood group antigen. Leukoreduced mHEL RBCs were transfused into wild-type recipient mice, and anti-HEL responses were monitored. To test the stated hypothesis, some recipient animals were injected with polyinosinic polycytidylic acid (poly(I:C)), a synthetic double-stranded RNA molecule that induces viral-like inflammation. Similar to the immunogenicity of most RBC antigens in humans, transfusion of mHEL RBCs into uninflamed mice was only a weak immunogen. In contrast, poly(I:C)-treated mice had a significant increase in both the frequency and the magnitude of alloimmunization to the mHEL antigen. These findings demonstrate that recipient inflammation with poly(I:C) significantly enhances humoral immunization to transfused alloantigens in a murine model. Moreover, these data suggest that the inflammatory status of human transfusion recipients may regulate the immunogenicity of transfused RBCs.
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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Adv Hematol
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Adv Hematol
                Journal ID (publisher-id): AH
                Title: Advances in Hematology
                Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
                ISSN (Print): 1687-9104
                ISSN (Electronic): 1687-9112
                Publication date (Print): 2015
                Publication date (Electronic): 6 September 2015
                Volume: 2015
                Electronic Location Identifier: 610931
                Affiliations
                1Department of Transfusion Medicine, The Mission Hospital, Durgapur, West Bengal 713212, India
                2Department of Transfusion Medicine, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar 751019, India
                3Department of Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion, MCH, Kolkata 700073, India
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                *Suvro Sankha Datta: suvro.datta@ 123456gmail.com

                Academic Editor: Thomas Kickler

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                DOI: 10.1155/2015/610931
                PMC ID: 4575732
                SO-VID: 39a20802-9a5f-4f07-af71-6b9279aaa22e
                Copyright © Copyright © 2015 Suvro Sankha Datta et al.
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                This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                Date received : 29 June 2015
                Date accepted : 5 August 2015
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