mismatched blood

A transfusion reaction can result from mismatched blood type.

President Clinton has urged greater use of bar code systems to prevent potentially fatal transfusions from mismatched blood.

This includes exposure from a mismatched blood transfusion, or exposure during your first pregnancy.

And electronic processing is diminishing the risk that human error would result in the transfusion of contaminated or mismatched blood.

Many people consider this choice to protect themselves from the risks of disease or mismatched blood that are linked to blood transfusion.

For treatment of a mismatched blood transfusion, the medication is given when symptoms of an immune response appear (when the body starts making Rh antibodies).

If you are receiving this medication to treat a mismatched blood transfusion, tell your doctor if you are pregnant or if you ever plan to become pregnant.

A person who is Rh negative can be exposed to Rh positive blood through a mismatched blood transfusion or during pregnancy when the baby has the opposite blood type.

She fought federal legislation that had an impact on university research, and Duke faced national scrutiny with the death of 17-year-old Jésica Santillán after a heart-lung transplant at Duke Medical Center failed because of mismatched blood types.

The first five transfusion errors at the hospital - one in 1990, another in 1992 and three in 1994 - involved mismatched blood samples that were never transfused, or bungled transfusions in which the error was caught immediately or the patient did not have a serious reaction, said Frances Tarlton, a Health Department spokeswoman.