Research Article
Reduced severity of Rh-haemolytic disease after anti-D immunoglobulin.
Br Med J 1975; 4 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.4.5992.320 (Published 08 November 1975) Cite this as: Br Med J 1975;4:320
- L A Derrick Tovey,
- A E Robinson
Abstract
A total of 2459 Rh-negative women who received anti-D immunoglobulin after a Rh-positive pregnancy were followed up in at least one subsequent pregnancy. There was a failure of protection rate of 1-6%. Follow-up of 53 subsequent infants of mother in whom protection had failed showed that the infants were less severely affected than would have been expected. This was confirmed by a comparative statistical analysis of the present series and a series of first affected cases before anti-D immunoglobulin was available, using the antibody titre during pregnancy and the haemoglobin levels at delivery.