If absent, there is a slightly increased risk of a transfusion reaction.
This is called a transfusion reaction and can cause serious illness or even death.
Getting the wrong blood type happens in about 1 out of 14,000 transfusions.1 A transfusion reaction may be mild or severe.
I'm concerned about having a transfusion reaction from donated blood.
Serious transfusion reactions are rare today because of blood type tests.
A mild transfusion reaction rarely is dangerous, but you must get treatment quickly.
A transfusion reaction can be mild or cause a serious illness and even death.
It is also known as an "immediate hemolytic transfusion reaction".
The committee's vote was in response to reports of nine severe transfusion reactions since 1987.
But the point is you didn't have a transfusion reaction.