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Why do we make antibodies to ABO blood groups even without exposure? There’s a reason many patients admitted to the hospital get a Type and Screen (T&S) to determine their ABO blood group. If that patient needed a transfusion and got an incompatible blood type, they could become severely ill or even die from an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction (AHTR), in which the immune system reacts violently to antigens (usually A or B) on the transfused red blood cells.
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