Allogeneic adsorptions: a comparison of the traditional method with a modified PEG adsorption method.

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the benefits of enhancing adsorptions with PEG. Allogeneic adsorptions were performed on 20 patient samples containing warm reactive autoantibodies with two volumes of adsorbing RBCs; results using unenhanced adsorptions were compared with those using PEG-enhanced adsorptions and with using untreated adsorbing RBCs and ficin-treated adsorbing RBCs. Two volumes of adsorbing RBCs, one volume of serum, and one volume of PEG were used.

Anti-EnaFS detected in the serum of an MiVII homozygote.

Anti-EnaFS was detected in the serum of a Caucasian woman, K.T., during her third pregnancy.

Anti-Tcb, an antibody that defines a red cell antigen antithetical to Tca.

A patient's serum, used as a source of anti-Goa typing serum, was found to contain a second antibody that detected a 'new' red cell antigen present in approximately 5 percent of blacks, but not yet found in Caucasians. Among blacks, the 'new' antigen shows an antithetical relationship to the high frequency antigen Tca, as evidenced by tests on eight unrelated Tc(a-) black women and the families of two of these propositi. The antigen, designated Tcb, has not been found on the red cells of Tc(a-) persons whose racial origins differ from the propositi of this report, which suggests that more than one genetic mechanism can produce the Tc(a-) phenotype.

A "new" phenotype confirming a relationship between Cra and Tca.

The red cells of two sisters had very weak Cra and Tca antigens and reacted only weakly with the antibody of the Cr(a-) Tc(a-)person, Inab. Both sisters had an antibody, named anti-Dra, to a high frequency antigen absent from their own cells and Inab cells but present on Cr(a-) Tc(a+) and on Cr(a+) Tc(a-) cells. This is the third example in which both Cra and Tca antigens are either absent or show weakened expression on the red cells, but the first case in which the unusual phenotype is shown to be inherited.

Tca: a high-frequency blood group antigen.

An IgG antibody defining a high-frequency red cell antigen was detected in the sera of two unrelated, nontransfused black women GT (gravida 1, para 0) and DLC (gravida 4, para 2). Inheritance of the antigen was established by the family study of DLC. The clinical significance of the antibody is not yet known.