Osmotic hemolysis is a donor-specific feature of red blood cells under various storage conditions and genetic backgrounds.
Vassilis L TzounakasAlkmini T AnastasiadiSerena I ValsamiKonstantinos E StamoulisEffie G PapageorgiouMarianna PolitouIssidora S PapassideriAnastasios G KriebardisMarianna H AntonelouPublished in: Transfusion (2021)
Our findings highlighted the potential of osmotic fragility to serve as a donor-signature on RBCs at every step of any individual transfusion chain (donor, blood product, and probably, recipient).