PEDIATRICS Vol. 27 No. 3 March 1961, pp. 370-372
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TRANSFUSION REACTIONS DUE TO LEUKOCYTE AGGLUTININS

Robert D. Gens M.D.1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

A patient who had received multiple blood transfusions and whose serum exhibited a leukocyte agglutinin is reported. This patient developed transfusion reactions characterized by chills, fever and lethargy when administered routine bloodbank and leukocyte-rich blood. No transfusion reaction was noted when the patient received leukocyte-poor blood.