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Transfusion‐associated hyperkalemia in pediatric population: Prevalence, risk factors, survival, infusion rate, and <scp>RBC</scp> unit features

Transfusion‐associated hyperkalemia in pediatric population: Prevalence, risk factors, survival, infusion rate, and <scp>RBC</scp> unit features

Authors :
Nabiha Huq Saifee
Meghan Delaney
Burak Bahar
Maureen Edelson
Angela Lee
Chisa Yamada
Source :
Transfusion. 61:1093-1101
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Wiley, 2021.

Abstract

BACKGROUND Hyperkalemia is a rare life-threatening complication of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion. Stored RBCs leak intracellular potassium (K+) into the supernatant; irradiation potentiates the K+ leak. As the characteristics of patients and implicated RBCs have not been studied systematically, a multicenter study of transfusion-associated hyperkalemia (TAH) in the pediatric population was conducted through the AABB Pediatric Transfusion Medicine Subsection. STUDY DESIGN The medical records of patients

Details

ISSN :
15372995 and 00411132
Volume :
61
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Transfusion
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........59c026c2795f9ec74da2a403ccbc22b1
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.16300