Prevalence and Specificity of RBC Alloantibodies in Indian Patients Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital

Table 2

Distribution of patients according to clinical specialties.

Specialty	Total number of patients	Mean age	Alloimmunized patients	Auto- + alloantibody	Sex; M/F
Hematology/oncology	6282	41.6 ± 17.6	118 (1.9%)	7	46/72
Gynecology	964	39.8 ± 18.8	8 (0.8%)	0	0/8
Orthopedics	1575	43.75 ± 14.1	11 (0.7%)	0	5/6
Nephrology/urology	923	33.6 ± 11.7	8 (0.9%)	0	3/5
Gastroenterology/gastrosurgery	908	35.5 ± 12.0	6 (0.7%)	0	1/5
Others	583	30.1 ± 11.2	6 (1%)	2	1/5
Total	11235		157 (1.4%)	9 (0.08%)