A Decade of Progress in the Rh Blood-Group System

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THE importance of the Rh factor is now well appreciated by both the physician and the layman. Understanding of the basic concept of isoimmunization by blood transfusion or by pregnancy requires only the knowledge that blood may be classified as "Rh positive" and "Rh negative." This was illustrated by Diamond's1 review in 1945, which described all the clinical manifestations associated with intragroup incompatibility of mother and fetus, or donor and recipient. After eight years it is scarcely possible to add anything to the essential principles on which understanding of the pathology of these conditions is based. But a great deal . . .
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