transfusion

The identification of MAL changed that, giving researchers a molecular explanation, clinicians a path toward better genetic testing, and rare patients a better chance of being identified before a difficult transfusion becomes an emergency.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

They become important when the immune system encounters red blood cells carrying an antigen it recognizes as foreign, particularly during transfusion or pregnancy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

But this treatment carried a high risk of the boy contracting anaemia, which could require an urgent blood transfusion in order to avoid death.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Tests revealed she had severe anemia, leading to a blood transfusion from another eagle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

In Hopital St. Croix there was sometimes a shortage of blood, and unless a patient could pay for blood to be sent from another hospital, he went without a transfusion and might well die.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

By storing blood in two battalion chief vehicles, paramedics are able to begin transfusions at the scene of a severe bleeding emergency instead of having to wait until the victim arrives at a hospital.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

For most transfusions, ABO and Rh compatibility receive the most attention.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Two boys were from Jehovah's Witness families who opposed blood transfusions on religious grounds.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

He spent nine days on a ventilator and 18 days on dialysis, during which time doctors gave him blood, platelet and plasma transfusions.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Darwin's “gemmule” theory—that hereditary instructions were thrown adrift by all cells and then floated in the blood, like a million messages in bottles—suggested that blood transfusions might transmit gemmules and thereby alter heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee