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People have anti-rejection drugs for organ replacement why can't you have the same for blood transfusions?
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No: Abo blood type incompatibility involves preformed antibodies to different red blood cell glycoproteins. The drugs would remove them.
Answered 8/29/2011
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It's not necessary: Rejection of a blood transfusion is called a "transfusion reaction." blood banks can almost always find a donor blood product which won't cause a reaction so anti-rejection drugs are usually not required.
Answered 9/28/2016
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