In the context of organ transplantation, what is the increased risk associated with an individual's having received previous blood transfusions on multiple occasions?
What will be an ideal response?
There is a possibility of incompatibility between erythrocytes and leukocytes involving ABO, Rhesus antigens, HLA class I and class II molecules, and other polymorphic alloantigens. Each transfusion will stimulate alloantibody production to these polymorphic determinants, which, if present in the blood of a subsequent transfusion, will stimulate a type II hypersensitivity reaction in the recipient. Each blood transfusion increases the alloantibody pool, making it more difficult to find donors who will not cause a hypersensitivity reaction.
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