Fatal transfusion‐associated graft‐versus‐host disease in an immunocompetent recipient of a volunteer unit of red cells

Abstract

This is the first reported case in the United States of fatal TAGVHD from RBCs in an immunocompetent patient who received a randomly selected unit of RBCs from a donor who was homozygous for a shared HLA haplotype. The policy of selective irradiation should be reexamined.