hollowayl Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Can someone help me out here please I am right in saying this term HTLA is falling out of fashion ? Is there is a new term for these annoying antibodies? I can't seem to find any reference to the current terminology unless I'm not looking hard enough I know the 16th edition of the AABB manual does not quote HTLA in its index Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rh-fan Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 As far as I know HTLA is a term you stil can use. It is the smal group of (as you say) annoying antibodies that couse no problems in transfusion.I do not like the sometimes used conclusion "tha patient has HTLA antibodies", you can only say that HTLA when you have determind the specificity, otherwhise you can not conclude they give no problem in transfusion.So you use the term but not as an conclusion.Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricore Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 :DPersonally I prefer Serum Hemagglutinins of Inscrutable Type:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 We aren't supposed to call them HTLA antibodies either Linda, but we haven't been told what we are supposed to call them!If you send one in to us, we'll do our best to identify a specificity, but if we can't.............then we'll tell you that it is a probable HTLA of unknown specificity, and I'll take the wrap on the knuckles from my own Line Manager!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollowayl Posted September 30, 2011 Author Share Posted September 30, 2011 Thank you all, thats cleared that up ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phalim Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Where I work we use the following terminology: "probable Knops System antibody" or you can use the following mouthful "Antibody to an antigen in the system fomerly known as HTLA". If it's possible to narrow it down based on the cells/antisera we have available we'll call it anti-Kna, anti-Sla, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rh-fan Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Where I work we use the following terminology: "probable Knops System antibody" or you can use the following mouthful "Antibody to an antigen in the system fomerly known as HTLA". If it's possible to narrow it down based on the cells/antisera we have available we'll call it anti-Kna, anti-Sla, etc.Knops is a system but HTLA is not. Don't forget the JMH and Csa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Also don't forget the Chido/Rodgers Blood Group System (although, being ever the pedant, Cost is a Blood Group Collection, rather than a Blood Group System). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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