Autologous Infant and Allogeneic Adult Red Cells Demonstrate Similar Concurrent Post-Transfusion Survival in Very Low Birth Weight Neonates

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• 作者：John A. Widness ; MD¹ ; ^{john-widness@uiowa.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Denison J. Kuruvilla ; MS² ; Donald M. Mock ; MD³ ; Nell I. Matthews ; BA³ ; Demet Nalbant ; PhD¹ ; Gretchen A. Cress ; RN ; MPH¹ ; Robert L. Schmidt ; BS¹ ; Ronald G. Strauss ; MD¹ ; ⁴ ; M. Bridget Zimmerman ; PhD⁵ ; Peter Veng-Pedersen ; PhD²
• 关键词：BioRBC ; Biotin-labeled RBC ; Hb ; Hemoglobin ; RBC ; Red blood cell ; RCS ; Red blood cell survival ; VLBW ; Very low birth weight
• 刊名：The Journal of Pediatrics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：167
• 期：5
• 页码：1001-1006
• 全文大小：468 K

文摘

Based on the hypothesis that neonatal autologous red blood cell (RBC) survival (RCS) is substantially shorter than adult RBC, we concurrently tracked the survival of transfused biotin-labeled autologous neonatal and allogeneic adult RBC into ventilated, very low birth weight infants.

Study design

RBC aliquots from the first clinically ordered, allogeneic adult RBC transfusion and from autologous infant blood were labeled at separate biotin densities (biotin-labeled RBC [BioRBC]) and transfused. Survival of these BioRBCs populations were concurrently followed over weeks by flow cytometric enumeration using leftover blood. Relative tracking of infant autologous and adult allogeneic BioRBC was analyzed by linear mixed modeling of batched weekly data. When possible, Kidd antigen (Jka and Jkb) mismatches between infant and donor RBCs were also used to track these 2 populations.

Results

Contrary to our hypothesis, concurrent tracking curves of RCS of neonatal and adult BioRBC in 15 study infants did not differ until week 7, after which neonatal RCS became shortened to 59%-79% of adult enumeration values for uncertain reasons. Analysis of mismatched Kidd antigen RBC showed similar results, thus, confirming that BioRBC tracking is not perturbed by biotin RBC labeling.

Conclusions

This study illustrates the utility of multidensity BioRBC labeling for concurrent measurement of RCS of multiple RBC populations in vivo. The similar RCS results observed for neonatal and adult BioRBCs transfused into very low birth weight infants provides strong evidence that the circulatory environment of the newborn infant, not intrinsic infant-adult RBC differences, is the primary determinant of erythrocyte survival.

Trial registration

Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT00731588.