Mollison's Blood Transfusion in Clinical Medicine

Harvey Klein is Chief, Department of Transfusion Medicine, NIH Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Centre and pas-president of the American Association of Blood Banks. He is a recognized leader in defining transfusion medicine as a broader-based clinical and laboratory consultative subspecialty. Dr Klein has published widely, authoring or co-authoring more than 150 publications, including journal articles and book chapters on transfusion medicine in major textbooks on haematology, internal medicine, and blood banking. He is on the editorial boards of Transfusion and Transfusion Medicine Reviews.

Professor David Anstee is the Director of the Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences, as affiliated Institute of the University of Bristol which includes the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory, a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre. He is also the Research co-ordinator for the National Blood Service in England and the current editor of the journal Transfusion Medicine.

Preface to twelfth edition v
Preface to eleventh edition vii
Preface to first edition ix
In memoriam: Professor Mollison xi
1 Blood donors and the withdrawal of blood 1
2 Transfusion of blood, blood components and plasma alternatives in oligaemia 22
3 Immunology of red cells 53
4 ABO, H, LE, P1PK, GLOB, I and FORS blood group systems 118
5 The Rh blood group system (including LW and RHAG) 167
6 Other red cell antigens 214
7 Red cell antibodies against self-antigens, bound antigens and induced antigens 259
8 Blood grouping techniques 303
9 The transfusion of red cells 356
10 Red cell incompatibility in vivo 411
11 Haemolytic transfusion reactions 458
12 Haemolytic disease of the fetus and the newborn 499
13 Immunology of leucocytes, platelets and plasma components 549
14 The transfusion of platelets, leucocytes, haematopoietic progenitor cells and plasma components 611
15 Some unfavourable effects of transfusion 660
16 Infectious agents transmitted by transfusion 696
17 Exchange transfusion and haemapheresis 764
18 Alternatives to allogeneic transfusion 800
19 Plasma fractionation and fractionation products 846
Appendices 873
Index 892
Colour plate section facing p. 148