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What complications can occur after a blood transfusion?
What are the currently known complications of blood transfusion?
- Early Complications:
- Hemolytic reactions (immediate and delayed)
- Non-hemolytic febrile reactions.
- Allergic reactions to proteins, IgA.
- Transfusion-related acute lung injury.
- Reactions secondary to bacterial contamination.
- Circulatory overload.
- Air embolism.
What would happen if someone received the wrong Rh factor?
Hemolytic transfusion reactions can cause the most serious problems, but these are rare. These reactions can occur when your ABO or Rh blood type and that of the transfused blood do not match. If this happens, your immune system attacks the transfused red blood cells. This can be life-threatening.
Is a technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel?
Angioplasty is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel; typically as a result of atherosclerosis.
What is the most common reaction to a blood transfusion?
The most common immediate adverse reactions to transfusion are fever, chills and urticaria.
Are only one cell in thickness and are the smallest blood vessels in the body?
Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels and their walls are only one cell thick which allows diffusion between the blood and cells to occur. Nutrients and oxygen from the blood diffuses through the capillary walls into the tissues that need it.
Is damage to the heart muscle caused by thrombus blocking a coronary artery?
About arterial thrombosis If a blood clot blocks the arteries leading to part of the heart muscle, it will cause a heart attack.
Which is a serious complication of a blood transfusion?
A type of cancer in which there is insufficient production of one or more types of blood due to dysfunction of the bone marrow. Stop or control bleeding. A serious, and potentially fatal, complication of a blood transfusion in which a severe immune response occurs because the patient’s blood and the donated blood do not match.
What causes chest pain after a blood transfusion?
Stop or control bleeding. A serious, and potentially fatal, complication of a blood transfusion in which a severe immune response occurs because the patient’s blood and the donated blood do not match. Severe episodes of chest pain occur due to inadequate blood flow to the myocardium.
How long are cord blood transplant recipients at risk for infection?
Until engraftment occurs, patients are at risk of developing life-threatening infections. Thus, cord blood transplant recipients may be vulnerable to infections for an average of up to one to two months longer than marrow and peripheral blood stem cell recipients.
What happens after a cord blood stem cell transplant?
• Graft-Versus-Host Disease. Studies have found that after a cord blood stem cell transplant, fewer patients got GVHD and, among those patients who did develop GVHD, the complication tended to be less severe than it was in patients who had bone marrow or peripheral blood transplants.