“…After Food and Drug Administration approval of the first anti‐CD38 daratumumab (Darzalex, Janssen Biotech), blood banks of all sizes began to grapple with anti‐CD38 testing interference. Several strategies were suggested to mitigate the drug effect including thiol‐ or trypsin‐treating RBCs, antibody screens with cord cells, antigen‐matched RBC transfusions guided by patient phenotyping or genotyping, and neutralizing the antibody with either soluble CD38 or anti‐daratumumab . However, limited availability of the latter two novel reagents and the complexity of testing options have precluded any one particular strategy emerging as standard of care .…”