The Clinical Importance of the Rh Blood Type
- 26 April 1945
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 232 (17) , 475-480
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194504262321703
Abstract
Rh Incompatibility in PregnancyIn contrast to the type of mild or only moderate transfusion reactions described above in men and in nongravid women, it has been recognized for several years that during pregnancy, or shortly thereafter, women may have severe transfusion reactions when given presumably compatible blood during a first transfusion. In 1939, Levine and Stetson40 reported a case of intragroup agglutination in a pregnant woman in which they demonstrated an abnormal agglutinin; they suggested that this had resulted from sensitization of the mother to some agent present in the fetus, inherited from the father. They did not give . . .Keywords
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