Jk3 alloantibodies during pregnancy-blood bank management and hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn risk.

Background: The Kidd-null phenotype, Jk(a-b-), occurs in individuals who do not express the JK glycoprotein. Jk(a-b-) individuals can make an antibody against the Jk3 antigen, a high-incidence antigen present in more than 99.9% of most populations.

Ten-year retrospective review of transfusion practices in beating-heart organ donors.

Background: Recent studies suggest that restrictive transfusion strategies are equivocal or noninferior to liberal strategies in various patient populations; however, evidence for the optimal transfusion threshold or current transfusion practice in beating-heart organ donors is lacking. A 10-year retrospective analysis of blood product utilization in beating-heart organ donors was performed to determine current transfusion practice.

Study Design And Methods: An institutional review board-approved retrospective review of 439 beating-heart organ donors from January 1, 2004, to October 1, 2014, was performed.

Images in clinical medicine: Morphologic changes in erythrocytes in hypertriglyceridemia.

A 39-year-old woman with a history of gestational diabetes was admitted with epigastric pain from acute pancreatitis. She had no history of hyperlipidemia, but multiple blood samples were grossly lipemic, and serum triglyceride levels were markedly increased.

Case report of pancreatic dermoid cyst: can fine needle aspiration make the diagnosis?

Context: Pancreatic dermoid cysts are rare, benign, germ cell tumors and part of the differential diagnosis for cystic neoplasms of the pancreas.

Case Report: A 35-year-old man presented with an incidentally discovered, 2 cm cystic pancreatic neoplasm of the pancreatic tail identified on CT scan. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) revealed a complex, honeycomb lesion.