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The significance of anti-c alloimmunization in pregnancy
Article first published online: 22 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1986.tb07829.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 93, Issue 10, pages 1044–1048, October 1986
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BOWELL, P. J., BROWN, S. E., DIKE, A. E. and INSKIP, M. J. (1986), The significance of anti-c alloimmunization in pregnancy. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 93: 1044–1048. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1986.tb07829.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 22 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 22 AUG 2005
- Received 12 May 1986, Accepted 15 June I986
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Summary. In an 8-year period, 177 of 280 000 pregnancies were complicated by maternal anti-c alloimmunization. Although there was one neonatal death associated with anti-c haemolytic disease of the newborn, only two infants were severely anaemic at birth. A total of 11 babies required exchange transfusion, but nine of these developed hyperbilirubinaemia alone. The remaining c positive infants were either unaffected or only mildly affected by erythroblastosisfetalis. A strategy for management of these pregnancies is outlined, and proposed methods of prevention and serological control are discussed.