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SJA-Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia. 2011; 5 (1): 101-104
in English
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ABSTRACT
We report on a patient with acute intermittent porphyria, who received 8 ABO incompatible units of packed red blood cells in an emergency situation. She never showed any signs of severe intravascular haemolysis. The patient died after four weeks because of a multi-organ failure caused from the malpractice of the porphyria. The problems of bedside testing, mixing field reaction, fresh frozen plasma and molecular-genetic determination of bloodgroup were discussed