Prevalence and laboratorial determinants of the clinical relevance of antibodies of undetermined specificity.
Marina Cavalcanti de Albuquerque da Veiga ConradoRegina A CardosoMarcia Regina DezanValeria Brito OliveiraAbel da Costa NetoKaren Chinoca ZizaJosé Eduardo KriegerAlexandre Costa PereiraEster Cerdeira SabinoVanderson RochaAlfredo Mendrone-JúniorCarla Luana DinardoPublished in: Vox sanguinis (2019)
More than one-third of the AUS are potentially clinically relevant, and the association with Rh antibodies is predictive of AUS relevance. Services must honour AUS in the pre-transfusion process in order to ensure transfusion safety.