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Arndt PA, Garratty G, Marfoe RA, Zeger GD. An acute haemolytic transfusion reaction caused by an anti-P1 that reacted at 37 degrees C. Transfusion 1998; 38(4): 373-377. DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1998.38498257376.x. Smith D, Aye T, Er LS, Nester T, Delaney M. Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction due to anti-P1: a case report and review of institutional experience. Transfus Med Hemother 2019; 46: 381-384. Published online as DOI: 10.1159/000490897. Irani MS, Figueroa D, Savage G. Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction due to anti-Leb. Transfusion 2015; 55: 2486-2488. DOI: 10.1111/trf.13178. Delk AA, Gammon RR, Alvarez H, Benitez N, Bright F, A hemolytic transfusion reaction caused by an unexpected Leb antibody. Laboratory Medicine 2021; 52: 303-306. DOI: 10.1093/labmed/lmaa070.

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"I'm sorry Neil, but Geoff Daniels quotes some HTR's caused by anti-N reacting at 37oC," These are, if I remember correctly, fairly ancient reports and I have never seen nor heard of a case of hemolytic transfusion reaction or HDFN due to anti-N despite having had hundreds of patients with anti-N in our service over the last half century. I've never heard of anyone else seeing one. So this is very possibly a case of old reports of hemolysis due to other causes (undetected antibodies for example). Methodology for antibody detection in the 1940s and 1950s, and even 1960s, was significantly less sensitive and accurate than currently. There are reports mentioned in Mollison and other comprehensive texts such as Daniels of hemolytic reactions due to antibodies (e.g., anti-P1, anti-Leb, etc.) that have never been reported in modern literature (the last 30-40 years). This makes me suspicious that these old reports are mistaken as to the cause of hemolysis. If the mother has an anti-N and the infant is not hemolyzing, and the antibody is undetectable I would not transfuse N negative blood. If the infant is hemolyzing, that is another story, obviously. A positive DAT, hemolysis and anti-N in the mother would dictate prudence and transfusing N negative blood. But I will stand by my original comment, which is that anti-N almost never causes clinically significant hemolysis in transfusion recipients nor in affected fetuses. Absent clinical and laboratory evidence for anti-N causing the infant's anemia, there is no reason to transfuse N negative blood when the antibody is not detectable in the fetus/infant.

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Aside from the obvious reason why blood shouldn't be warmed to 40C, why would you need 40C blood? I think rbcs starts to lyse around that temperature. Why would you want lysed blood? Sorry, I am not familiar with these Ranger blood warmers, I am just curious. Good luck

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