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EXTERNAL VERSION IN THE RHESUS NEGATIVE WOMAN
Author(s) -
Murray J.,
Dewhurst C. J.,
Archer G. D.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1974.tb00398.x
Subject(s) - pregnancy , medicine , antibody , rh blood group system , obstetrics , immunology , biology , genetics
Summary A study was made of 347 rhesus negative women with no antibodies who gave birth to a rhesus positive baby and were given 250 μg. of anti‐D gamma globulin within 48 hours of delivery; in 36 of the patients attempts at external version had been made during pregnancy. Four patients were found to have antibodies at six months or more after delivery and in none of them had external version been attempted. Thirteen patients in the external version group had a further rhesus positive baby without developing antibodies during pregnancy.