Open AccessCase series investigation on the Lewis system antibodies encountered during a routine screening in a tertiary care hospital-based blood center
Author(s) -
A M Gayathri,
Debasish Gupta
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asian journal of transfusion science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.262
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1998-3565
pISSN - 0973-6247
DOI - 10.4103/ajts.ajts_60_19
Subject(s) - medicine , antibody , serology , antigen , tertiary care , immunology , pediatrics
Anti-Lewis antibodies, usually do not react at 37°C, hence are clinically insignificant. However, on rare occasions, these antibodies have been reported as the cause for hemolytic transfusion reaction (HTR).