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Routine administration of Anti-D: the ethical case for offering pregnant women fetal RHD genotyping and a review of policy and practice.
BMC pregnancy and childbirth - 25 Feb 2014
Kent Julie, Farrell Anne-Maree, Soothill Peter
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BACKGROUND: Since its introduction in the 1960s Anti-D immunoglobulin (Anti-D Ig) has been highly successful in reducing the incidence of haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) and achieving improvements to maternal and fetal health. It has protected women from other invasive interventions during pregnancy and prevented deaths and damage amongst newborns and is a technology which has been adopted...
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