AB positive. If you have this rare blood type (found in 3.4% of Americans), you can receive blood or plasma of any type. You’re known as a universal recipient.

Among the immediate complications of transfusion, the most common and serious are intravascular hemolytic transfusion reactions because of ABO incompatibility caused by giving the wrong blood to a ...

Implementing advanced testing methods like partial phenotype testing ensures the safe transfusion of blood to patients by matching specific red cell antigens. The National blood policy in India ...