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Query: UMLS:C0476273 (
respiratory distress
)
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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.
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PMID:Fatal pulmonary hypersensitivity reaction to HL-A incompatible blood transfusion:report of a case and review of the literature. 125 14
