ABO Incompatibility

ABO incompatibility: which one matters?

ABO Bloods group incompatibility in recurrent abortion

Abstract Background A vast variety of factors may cause recurrent pregnancy loss. Blood group incompatibility of parents could cause abortion. The examination of couples or twins, blood groups showed that the blood group incompatibility can affect adversely the outcome of pregnancy. Couples with blood group incompatibility are more involved in spontaneous miscarriage. Antigenes in two differe...

Hydrops fetalis due to ABO incompatibility.

Hemolytic disease of the newborn due to ABO incompatibility was first observed by Halbrecht in 1944. This entity has a spectrum ranging from minimal hemolysis requiring no therapy, as is the case in most instances, to severe hemolytic disease requiring aggressive management including exchange transfusion in a small percentage of cases. An extreme degree of hemolytic disease of the newborn due t...

Overcoming the ABO incompatibility barrier in pediatric renal transplantation.

BACKGROUND ABO blood type incompatibility between a donor and recipient is generally considered a contraindication to kidney transplantation. CASE CHARACTERISTICS A 12-year-old boy presented with end stage renal disease (blood group B), with the only healthy available donor being mother (blood group AB). The child received renal transplant with mother as the donor, with a designed desensitiza...

Postnatal phenobarbitone for preventing hyperbilirubinaemia in newborns with ABO incompatibility.

Phenobarbitone acts as an inducer of hepatic enzymes resulting in accelerated uptake, conjugation and excretion of bilirubin.'> Its prophylactic use in a high risk setting such as ABO incompatibility may help in reducing the need for phototherapy and exchange transfusions. From May to December 1998, a prospective study was done at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, St John's Medical College and ...