Bombay Blood Group for Pediatric Cardiac Surgery in the Era of a Pandemic: Newer Challenges Call for Desperate Measures!
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Bombay blood group is one of the rarest blood types with a prevalence of 1 per 10,000 population in India. Children and adults of this blood group can receive autologous blood or blood from an individual with a Bombay phenotype only. Children with grown-up uncorrected cyanotic heart disease are associated with a high risk of perioperative hemorrhagic diathesis and may require multiple blood transfusions. Arrangement of adequate Bombay blood group units for pediatric cardiac surgery is a unique challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about additional difficulties in the procurement of blood components due to donor hostility. Despite the associated risks, pre-operative multi-session autologous blood harvest under monitored anesthesia care was planned in a 16-year-old child and four units of autologous blood were harvested and preserved for performing total correction surgery.
Adult, Adolescent, rare blood groups, covid-19 pandemic, pediatric cardiac surgery, Case Report, Heart, autologous blood harvest, Anesthesiology, RC666-701, Blood Group Antigens, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, Humans, RD78.3-87.3, Blood Transfusion, cyanotic heart disease, Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Child, Pandemics, bombay blood group
Adult, Adolescent, rare blood groups, covid-19 pandemic, pediatric cardiac surgery, Case Report, Heart, autologous blood harvest, Anesthesiology, RC666-701, Blood Group Antigens, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, Humans, RD78.3-87.3, Blood Transfusion, cyanotic heart disease, Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Child, Pandemics, bombay blood group
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