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Red blood cells (RBCs) from Asian-type DEL blood group express very weak RhD antigen and are falsely typed as RhD-negative blood group in routine RhD testing. Until now, Asian-type DEL (D-eluate) patients still be treated as rare RhD-negative patients in the clinic. Previous study from the Asian-type DEL pregnant women with RhD+ fetus showed no occurrence of alloanti-D immunization. This result, however, does not directly be applied for Asian-type DEL patients receiving RhD+ blood transfusions, as lacking of direct evidence regarding the safety and underlying mechanism. In this study, the patients with Asian-type DEL were identified and received RhD+ blood transfusion, then evaluations of any adverse reactions, especially the active follow-up alloantibody test, were prospectively conducted.


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Red blood cells (RBCs) from Asian-type DEL individuals express very weak RhD antigen and are falsely typed as RhD-negative in routine RhD testing. Recent studies have shown that 9-30% of individuals with a serologically apparent RhD-negative phenotype in East and Southeast Asian populations, including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai and Myanmar, actually are not truly RhD-negative but exhibit the DEL (D-eluate) phenotype, which represents almost 1.7 million Asian-type DEL individuals in China, 250,000 in Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Myanmar as well as at least 90,000 in the US among Asian immigrants. Nowadays, Asian-type DEL patients are conventionally transfused with RhD-negative RBC, which are difficult to organize because of the undersupply of the rare RhD-negative blood in these Asian countries, due to low frequency distribution (0.3-0.4%). However, our previous study demonstrated that Asian-type DEL pregnant women with RhD+ fetus did not develop alloanti-D during the pregnancy. Latter, this phenomenon was confirmed by different medical centers in China. Accordingly, Asian-type DEL patients may also not be able to produce alloanti-D after transfusion with RhD+ RBC and consequently the use of RhD-negative RBCs for the transfusion management of Asian-type patients may be superfluous. However, this hypothesis needs to be carefully proved. In this study, we were able to verify this assumption. Blood samples from 2,011 Chinese patients with a primary RhD-negative phenotype from the hospitals in Guangzhou of China were typed for Asian-type DEL blood group in the Guangzhou Blood Center. DEL phenotyping was performed by the serological adsorption/elution antibody testing and genotyping for the Asian-type DEL specific allele (RHD*1227A) detection was conducted using a well validated high-resolution melting (HRM) approach. Then, transfusions of RhD+ RBC were performed in a cohort of Asian-type DEL patients. After RhD+ blood transfusion, evaluations of any adverse reactions, especially the active follow-up alloantibody test, were conducted to evaluate the alloanti-D immunization. Besides, effectiveness of transfusion (Hb changes) was also recorded. ;


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NCT number NCT03727230
Study type Interventional
Source Guangzhou Blood Center
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date October 1, 2016
Completion date November 30, 2021

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