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Transfusion reaction

最后审阅: 1 Dec 2025
最后更新: 23 May 2025

小结

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • chills
  • flushing
  • dyspnea
  • fever
  • chest, abdominal, flank, and back pain
  • hypotension
  • bleeding from mucous membranes, GI tract, or urinary tract
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Other diagnostic factors

  • headache
  • nausea and vomiting
  • anxiety
  • pain along the infused extremity
  • pruritus
  • urticaria
  • angioedema
  • jaundice
  • rales
  • red urine
  • stridor or bronchospasm
  • pallor
  • maculopapular rash
  • diarrhea
  • disseminated purpura
  • exfoliative dermatitis with mucocutaneous involvement
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Risk factors

  • prior pregnancy
  • previous transfusion
  • history of transplantation
  • IgA deficiency
  • immunocompromise
  • history of transfusion reaction
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • direct antiglobulin test
  • visual inspection of post-transfusion blood sample
  • repeat ABO testing on post-transfusion blood sample
  • post-transfusion urinalysis
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Tests to consider

  • serum IgA levels
  • anti-IgA antibody testing
  • serum tryptase level
  • serum alloantibody screen
  • serum LDH
  • serum bilirubin
  • gram stain and culture of component and post-transfusion recipient samples
  • biopsy of skin, gut or liver
  • HLA typing
  • platelet antibody screen
  • serum haptoglobin
  • serum potassium
  • serum bicarbonate
  • serum calcium
  • serum creatinine
  • CBC
  • D-dimer
  • PT and PTT
  • chest x-ray
  • arterial blood gas
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Treatment algorithm

Острый

acute transfusion reaction

ПРОДОЛЖЕНИЕ

delayed transfusion reaction

Составители

Авторы

Dih-Dih Huang, MD

Department of Surgery

St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center

Phoenix

AZ

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DH declares that she has no competing interests.

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Dr Dih-Dih Huang would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Jordan A Weinberg, previous contributor to this topic.

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JAW declares that he has no competing interests.

Рецензенты

Erin Horstman, MD

Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine

Yale University

New Haven

CT

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EH declares that she has no competing interests.

Christoph Pechlaner, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Innsbruck Medical University

Innsbruck

Austria

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CP declares that he has no competing interests.

Marisa Marques, MD

Professor of Pathology

University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital

Birmingham

AL

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MM declares that she has no competing interests.

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Основные статьи

Soutar R, McSporran W, Tomlinson T, et al. Guideline on the investigation and management of acute transfusion reactions. Br J Haematol. 2023 Jun;201(5):832-44.Полный текст  Аннотация

Panch SR, Montemayor-Garcia C, Klein HG. Hemolytic transfusion reactions. N Engl J Med. 2019 Jul 11;381(2):150-62. Аннотация

Laureano M, Khandelwal A, Yan M​. Canadian Blood Services. Clinical guide to transfusion: transfusion reactions (chapter 10). Oct 2022 [internet publication].Полный текст

American Red Cross. A compendium of transfusion practice guidelines: fourth edition. 2021 [internet publication].Полный текст

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