A bone marrow transplant changes a recipient's blood type
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Because a bone marrow transplant replaces the recipient's blood-forming stem cells with those from a donor, successful engraftment eventually leads to the recipient adopting the donor's blood type.
Evidence for · 8
Bone marrow transplantation with major ABO blood group incompatibility using erythrocyte depletion of marrow prior to infusion
1982 · cited by 123
Discusses managing major ABO blood group incompatibilities during bone marrow transplantation, confirming that new erythrocytes matching the donor eventually appear.
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ABO blood group system and bone marrow transplantation
1977 · cited by 99
Examines how ABO-incompatible bone marrow successfully engrafts despite initial antibody barriers.
ABO Blood Group Antigens on Human Plasma von Willebrand Factor After ABO-Mismatched Bone Marrow Transplantation
1999 · cited by 45
Shows that ABO blood groups on red blood cells gradually convert to the donor's type within months following a mismatched transplant.
Temporal Change in Blood Group after Bone Marrow Transplant: A Case of Successful ABO-Incompatible Deceased Donor Transplant
2020 · cited by 4
Notes that patients can revert or change blood types after stem cell transplants.
Successful treatment of pure red cell aplasia after major ABO-incompatible T cell-depleted bone marrow transplantation with erythropoietin.
1997 · cited by 0
References a patient achieving conversion of their ABO blood group to the donor type following an incompatible bone marrow transplant.
A to O bone marrow transplantation in severe aplastic anaemia: dynamics of blood group conversion and demonstration of early dyserythropoiesis in the engrafted marrow.
1977 · cited by 0
Documents the dynamics of blood group conversion following an A-to-O bone marrow transplant.
Multilineage hematopoietic engraftment after allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation without conditioning in SCID patients.
2004 · cited by 0
Confirms erythroid engraftment via blood group conversion from recipient to donor type in ABO-incompatible transplants.
Clonal dynamics after allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation.
2024 · cited by 0
Explains that allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation replaces the recipient's blood-producing stem cells with those of the donor.