1. Donors with a rare pheno (geno) type.
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Reesink, H. W., Engelfriet, C. P., Schennach, H., Gassner, C., Wendel, S., Fontão-Wendel, R., de Brito, M. A., Sistonen, P., Matilainen, J., Peyrard, T., Pham, B. N., Rouger, P., Le Pennec, P. Y., Flegel, W. A., von Zabern, I., Lin, C. K., Tsoi, W. C., Hoffer, I., Barotine-Toth, K., and Joshi, S. R.
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BLOOD cells ,ERYTHROCYTES ,PATIENTS ,ANTIGENS ,BLOOD donors - Abstract
The article presents questions and answers related to red blood cells for patients who are negative for a high-frequency antigen including the definition of a rare donor, problems encountered in finding compatible red blood cells (RBC) for patients, and whether countries have a national panel of rare donors and/or a national bank of frozen (RBC) units from such donors.
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- 2008
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