Nur Ilyia Syazwani Saidin, Nurul Anis Che Anuar, Mohd Nazri Hassan, Noor Haslina Mohd Noor, Zefarina Zulkafli, Hisham Atan Edinur
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Abstract
Testing for ABO incompatibility between a potential blood donor and recipient is the cornerstone of pretransfusion testing. Occasionally, weak agglutination reactions occur due to low expression of A and B antigens on the surface of red blood cells. This can lead to inconsistencies in blood group typing, as seen in a case where a patient's forward and reverse typing showed discrepancies. Following a comprehensive analytical assessment, the patient was identified as having a distinctive variant of blood group A, belonging to the less common subgroups-A3, Aend, Ax, Am, Ay, and Ael. Herein, we present 3 case series of ABO subgroups identified through extended ABO blood grouping procedures.
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Asian Biomedicine: Research, Reviews and News (ISSN 1905-7415 print; 1875-855X online) is published in one volume (of 6 bimonthly issues) a year since 2007. [...]Asian Biomedicine is an international, general medical and biomedical journal that aims to publish original peer-reviewed contributions dealing with various topics in the biomedical and health sciences from basic experimental to clinical aspects. The work and authorship must be strongly affiliated with a country in Asia, or with specific importance and relevance to the Asian region. The Journal will publish reviews, original experimental studies, observational studies, technical and clinical (case) reports, practice guidelines, historical perspectives of Asian biomedicine, clinicopathological conferences, and commentaries
Asian biomedicine is intended for a broad and international audience, primarily those in the health professions including researchers, physician practitioners, basic medical scientists, dentists, educators, administrators, those in the assistive professions, such as nurses, and the many types of allied health professionals in research and health care delivery systems including those in training.