Multiple Intraperitoneal Transfusions of the Fetus for Erythroblastosis Fetalis

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Abstract
REPLACEMENT transfusion will salvage almost all infants with hemolytic disease of the new-born who are fortunate enough to survive to term and who are not hydropic. In our hands over the past ten years induction of labor in selected cases, occasionally as early as thirty-two weeks' gestation, has salvaged a further 104 babies who, on the basis of the history and degree of disease, noted at birth, would almost certainly have died before term. In the past two and a half years spectrophotometric examination of amniotic fluid has allowed a more accurate prognosis of degree of disease in the fetus, . . .