A practical strategy to reduce the risk of passive hemolysis by screening plateletpheresis donors for high‐titer ABO antibodies

BACKGROUND: Hemolytic transfusion reactions (HTRs) can occur from ABO‐incompatible platelet (PLT) transfusions. After a series of cases at our institution, a procedure to screen all plateletpheresis donors for high‐titer ABO antibodies was implemented.

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