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SUBMITTER: Mattaloni SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5318919 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mattaloni Stella Maris SM Arnoni Carine C Céspedes Rosario R Nonaka Claudia C Trucco Boggione Carolina C Luján Brajovich Melina Eliana ME Trejo Andrea A Zani Néstor N Biondi Claudia Silvia CS Castilho Lilian L Cotorruelo Carlos Miquel CM
Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie 20161102 1
<h4>Background</h4>Kell null (K<sub>0</sub>) individuals can produce anti-Ku, an antibody against many epitopes in the Kell glycoprotein, after transfusion and/or pregnancy. Since sensitized K<sub>0</sub> patients are rare, little is known about anti-Ku clinical relevance and in particular about its association to hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn.<h4>Case report</h4>This work describes a case of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia due to immune-mediated erythrocyte destruction by an alloantibo ...[more]