title: Immunohistochemical detection of an ABO-incompatible blood transfusion in formalin-fixed tissue.
abstract: A fatal incident of an ABO incompatible erythrocyte transfusion in a 75-year-old male patient who suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy with cardiac failure is reported. Blood group A red cells were transfused to the unintended recipient who had blood group O. The patient died 45 min after the incompatible erythrocyte transfusion. The way the incident happened remained unclear and the immunohistochemical detection of ABO incompatible erythrocytes in formaldehyde-fixed paraffin-embedded kidney, lung, liver and spleen tissue provided the only material evidence of the transfusion error.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Legal Medicine, University Münster, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pfeiffer
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ortmann
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brinkmann
mesh_terms: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy / Q000379:methods*; D001787:Blood Group Incompatibility / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors; D065227:Transfusion Reaction
chemical_list: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System