2025 MABB Annual Meeting

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Across
  1. 1. Most important blood group.
  2. 3. Has no FUT1 or FUT2.
  3. 5. Used to preserve whole blood by chelating calcium (preventing clotting), buffering pH, and providing nutrients.
  4. 7. These people can make ABO antigens in plasma.
  5. 11. FDA classification for blood products; “___ class biologic”.
  6. 14. System associated with P. vivax infection.
  7. 17. Commonly encountered cold-reactive antibody (usually benign).
  8. 18. Term for antibodies made from exposure to foreign red cell antigens.
  9. 21. Phase where enhancement media is added in IAT.
  10. 23. Pink top tube additive.
  11. 24. Occurs because of HLA antibodies.
Down
  1. 1. _____13; lacking in TTP.
  2. 2. Component given to reverse warfarin quickly (abbr.).
  3. 4. Preservative solution in red cell units (abbr.).
  4. 6. Hemolytic reaction that occurs days after transfusion (abbr.).
  5. 8. Inherited condition causing absence of D antigen.
  6. 9. Blood group system second in importance to ABO.
  7. 10. Antibody commonly found in cases of hemolytic disease of the newborn.
  8. 12. Serologic test detecting antigen-antibody complexes on RBCs (abbr.).
  9. 13. Temperature in Celsius for storing platelets.
  10. 15. Regulatory body overseeing blood banks in the U.S.
  11. 16. PLASMA The universal plasma donor (two words).
  12. 19. This plasma is never frozen.
  13. 20. antibodies that cross the placenta and bind to fetal red blood cells.
  14. 22. Anti-CD38 drug that impacts serological testing.