Immuno-hematological consequence of intravenous drug abuse?
Alloimmunization
intravenous drug abuse
select cells
Journal
Asian journal of transfusion science
ISSN: 0973-6247
Titre abrégé: Asian J Transfus Sci
Pays: India
ID NLM: 101306858
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
received:
21
08
2019
accepted:
19
02
2020
entrez:
9
11
2020
pubmed:
10
11
2020
medline:
10
11
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Intravenous (IV) drug abuse has been well established to be the source of transfer of infections, such as HIV, hepatitis C virus, and hepatitis B virus. However, often overlooked fact is that IV drug abusers have a potential for developing alloimmunization due to universal practice of flushing/washing out the syringe by own blood to rinse out the drug in the syringe. We present here a case of a 28-year-old man who presented with a rather unique predicament of having developed four different alloantibodies after exposure to allogenic blood through IV drug abuse. This case was detected promptly due to routine usage of type and screen policy for all the patients receiving transfusion. Such screening for atypical antibodies must be instituted to preemptively identify these antibodies and arrange compatible blood, which could have been difficult otherwise, at short notice during routine crossmatch. This is the first of its kind case ever reported from India and has no precedence.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33162711
doi: 10.4103/ajts.AJTS_88_19
pii: AJTS-14-67
pmc: PMC7607986
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
67-69Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2020 Asian Journal of Transfusion Science.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
There are no conflicts of interest.
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