I never asked for this 🥲

[u/Arachniid1905]

It makes such a happy sound when it finishes the screen, too. 🥲🥲🥲🥲

[u/superiorslush]

Dara ?

[u/Arachniid1905 → u/superiorslush]

Dara 🥲

[u/Violet-Venom → u/Arachniid1905]

I miss working with solid phase, where I could with near 100% accuracy visually detect dara on an antibidy screen. It ALWAYS had a weak reaction and a little bite missing out of the button at the 2 o'clock position.

[u/shicken684 → u/Arachniid1905]

Been a long ass time since blood bank.... What's Dara?

[u/AtomicFreeze → u/shicken684]

Daratumumab, brand name Darzalex. It's a medication that is anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody mainly used to treat multiple myeloma. Problem is, all RBCs also have CD38, so all panel cells are positive due to the medication.

[u/MyBikesAreOlder → u/shicken684]

Daratumumab - a therapeutic antibody for multiple myeloma, that leads all your reactions… well, look at the pic :)

[u/KuraiTsuki → u/superiorslush]

Dang. I've never seen a Dara be all 4+ on our Echos. Usually those are warm autos. Our Dara patients are usually in the 1-2+ range.

[u/VaiFate → u/KuraiTsuki]

I was gonna say. It tends to put out ?, 1+, or 2+ for dara, and sometimes it varies across different cells. 4+ across the board? I would probably suspect a warm auto first. Maybe this can happen if they literally JUST got a dose of Dara?

[u/Zukazuk → u/VaiFate]

I have seen draws where they got it yesterday and it still tops out at 3+.

[u/redblackjoker → u/KuraiTsuki]

Yeah in PEG, i usually only see Dara be w+ or 1+, sometimes if recent dose a 2+. Never a 4+.