The most common, although not severe, acute tansfusion reactions are urticaria and febrile, nonhemolytic, mostly preventable by leukodepletion and leukoreduction. Delayed transfusion reactions are ...

Febrile responses to platelet transfusions are common but some can be life-threatening and the cause of these reactions is largely unknown. In June 23 Lancet, Richard Phipps and colleagues from ...

The clinical presentation is a spectrum of symptoms, including fever and ... physician and the transfusion department/laboratory must be notified immediately and the reactions must be evaluated ...