Rh hemolytic disease
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...disease of the newborn, a disorder in which maternal antibodies destroy the child’s red blood cells during late pregnancy and shortly after birth. The most severe form of erythroblastosis fetalis is Rh hemolytic disease, which develops when: The fetus is Rh-positive; that is, its red blood cells carry an antigen known as the Rh factor. The mother is Rh-negative, which is to say her red blood...
Two blood group systems, Rh and ABO, primarily are associated with erythroblastosis fetalis. The Rh system is responsible for the most severe form of the disease, which can occur when an Rh-negative woman (a woman whose blood cells lack the Rh factor) conceives an Rh-positive fetus. Sensitization of the mother’s immune system (immunization) occurs when fetal red blood cells that carry the Rh...
Rho-GAM is a human anti-RhD immune serum globulin used in the prevention of Rh hemolytic disease of the newborn. Rho-GAM is given to Rh-negative mothers after the delivery of Rh-positive infants or after miscarriage or abortion to prevent the development of anti-Rh antibodies, which could cause hemolysis (red blood cell destruction) in the infant of a subsequent pregnancy.
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