5 days ago
Woman's rare blood type baffles doctors
Compiled by DIVYA THERESA RAVI, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A WOMAN, who was admitted to a hospital for a cardiac procedure, discovered that she had a very rare blood type, Malaysia Nanban reported.
Doctors at a private hospital in the Indian city of Kolar in Karnataka state found that her blood was incompatible with all 'O' blood group despite it being classified as 'O Rh+' (commonly called O-positive).
Her blood was eventually referred to the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory in Bristol, England.
It led to 10 months of research and molecular testing, which confirmed the unique nature of her blood.
The newly identified blood group had been given the name CRIB, which refers to Cromer-India-Bengaluru, named after the state where the blood was discovered.
Doctors at the Karnataka hospital eventually managed to complete the woman's cardiac surgery without any transfusion done.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
