PREVENTION OF UNINTENTIONAL ISOIMMUNIZATION OF THE RH NEGATIVE FEMALE POPULATION
Abstract
The obstetric history of mothers of erythroblastotic infants reveals that this condition, as a rule, does not occur in the first born. Frequently the first one, two or more Rh + infants are normal. From the point of view of isoimmunization, it is clear that oneor more pregnancies with Rh + offspring are required to induce a state of isoimmunization sufficiently intense to produce the hemolytic condition in the following Rh + infant.1 In other words, the first one or more pregnancies serve...