Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Bombay blood group is a very rare type of blood group with incidence of 0.0004% in the world.Individuals with rare Bombay phenotype do not express H antigen, the antigen which is present in blood group O. Bombay blood group can be misdiagnosed because usual tests for ABO blood group system would show them as group O and patient can be transfused mismatched blood which can be fatal.Here we report a case of 42 years old female diagnosed as Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) at private hospital and transfused 4 units of O positive PCV following which she developed jaundice and was referred to GCRI.Our blood bank had difficulty in finding the exact blood group but on subsequent work up it was found to be Bombay blood group and it was reconfirmed at National Institute of Immunology, Mumbai.As Bombay blood group is rare in Gujarat she was referred to Mumbai for further treatment.None of her siblings tested positive for Bombay blood group.
Authors: Panchal Harsha P, Shah Sandip A, Patel Apurva A, Parikh Sonia K, Patel Priyanka, Anand Asha S, Kusumgar Rima
Language: English
Topic: Blood groups and transfusion
Subfield: Hematology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4411222296