Mollison's Blood Transfusion in Clinical Medicine provides a sound basis for understanding modern transfusion medicine.

Mollison's Blood Transfusion in Clinical Medicine includes:

• Definitive reference source for any clinician involved with patients requiring transfusion and for all staff working in transfusion services, immunohaematology laboratories and blood banks
• Highly practical advice on management issues for the clinician
• Completely revised and updated to reflect the rapid pace of change in transfusion medicine
• Written by two of the world's leading experts in the field

Contents

1. Blood donors and the withdrawal of blood
2. Transfusion of blood, blood components and plasma alternatives in oligaemia
3. Immunology of red cells
4. ABO, Lewis, and P groups and Ii antigens
5. The Rh blood group system (and LW)
6. Other red cell antigens
7. Red cell antibodies against self antigens, bound antigens and induced antigens
8. Blood grouping techniques
9. The transfusion of red cells
10. Red cell incompatibility in vivo
11. Haemolytic transfusion reactions
12. Haemolytic disease of the fetus and the newborn
13. Immunology of leucocytes, platelets and plasma components
14. The transfusion of platelets, leucocytes, haemopoietic cells and plasma components
15. Some unfavourable effects of transfusion
16. Infectious agents transmitted by transfusion
17. Haemopheresis
18. Alternatives to blood transfusion

Index

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