Authors
Hedyeh Shafi, MD
Attending Pathologist
Joe Chaffin, MD
Senior Consultant, Transfusion Medicine
Ellen Klapper, MD
Clinical Professor, Pathology
Director, Transfusion Medicine
Director, Transfusion Medicine Fellowship
Holli Mason, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology
Associate Director, Transfusion Medicine
Medical Director, Core Laboratory
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Division of Transfusion Medicine
Los Angeles, California
Primary Audience: Pathologists and Clinical Scientists
Secondary Audience: Residents, Laboratory Technologist/Scientist (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants, Laboratory Directors and Educators
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
- explain current uses of molecular extended human erythrocyte typing;
- explain characteristics of the MNS system and the U antigen;
- describe the treatment of patients with rare red blood cell phenotypes;
- describe serologic findings of a warm autoantibody; and
- describe management of a warm autoantibody.