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Positive Kleihauer Result Following an Ectopic Pregnancy
Author(s) -
Krause Hannah G.,
Goh Judith T.W.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1996.tb02721.x
Subject(s) - economic shortage , medicine , ectopic pregnancy , pregnancy , obstetrics , gynecology , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , biology , genetics
Summary: The case presented highlights the risk of fetomaternal haemorrhage in ectopic pregnancy. With the current shortages of anti‐D, it may be necessary to reduce administration of anti‐D, but this may result in an increase in rhesus isoimmunization. As Kleihauer testing may be of limited value (1), recommendations by deCrespigny and Davison (2) for the use of a reduced dose of 30 meg anti‐D in all rhesus negative women with early pregnancy complications including ectopic pregnancy, would seem appropriate.