Immuno-hematological consequence of intravenous drug abuse ?

We present here a case of a 28-year-old man who presented with a rather unique predicament of having developed four different alloantibodies after exposure to allogenic blood through IV drug abuse. This case was detected promptly due to routine usage of type and screen policy for all the patients receiving transfusion. Such screening for atypical antibodies must be instituted to preemptively identify these antibodies and arrange compatible blood, which could have been difficult otherwise, at short notice during routine crossmatch. This is the first of its kind case ever reported from India and has no precedence.

Source: Asian Journal of Transfusion Science - July 23, 2020 Category: Hematology Authors: Aikaj Jindal Anil Luther Aseem K Tiwari Amit Mahajan Subhasis Mitra Source Type: research