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Query: UMLS:C0034063 (
pulmonary edema
)
10,665
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
A girl with Thalassemia major reacted to a transfusion of packed red blood cells with increasing respiratory distress until death 12 1/2 hours later. Chills and fever were followed by dry cough, dyspnea, and
pulmonary edema
. The recipient had lymphocytotoxic antibodies specific for donor leukocyte antigens HL-
A11
and possibly W14. At autopsy, the lungs showed
pulmonary edema
with extensive nonspecific acute alveolar injury. Similar cases in the literature are reviewed.
...
PMID:Fatal pulmonary hypersensitivity reaction to HL-A incompatible blood transfusion:report of a case and review of the literature. 125 14
