“Bombay Blood group” sharing the Chitra experience
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2024-06-15
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Blood transfusions are now part of the medical and surgical treatment in today’s patient care. It’s been more than a century back only ABO blood groups were discovered and blood banking started to give crossmatch compatible blood units to the patient in need.
Patients with rare blood groups becomes a trouble for clinicians and Transfusion Medicine specialists in getting a compatible blood for them and Bombay blood group phenotype is such an example who can only be transfused with blood from another Bombay phenotype donor. Bombay blood group is a rare autosomal recessive phenotype within the ABO blood group. The estimated prevalence is 1 in 10,000 in India and 1 in 10,000,000 outside of India. First discovered by Dr. Y.M. Bhende, C. K. Deshpande and H.M Bhatia in 1952 at Bombay (now “Mumbai”). These patients can be mistaken with ‘O’ group if not typed with patient’s serum, and may lead to severe hemolytic transfusion reactions.
At our Blood Centre we maintain rare donor registry for Bombay blood group donors. Interdepartmental communication between the clinicians and Blood Centre becomes crucial along with adopting the patient blood management and blood conservation techniques.