Severe hemolytic disease of the newborn due to anti-Js(b)

Vox Sang. 1995;69(2):140-1. doi: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1995.tb01686.x.

Abstract

Anti-Js(b) has not been reported to cause severe hemolytic disease of the newborn requiring intrauterine evaluation and treatment. We now report on such a patient with high-titered anti-Js(b) causing fetal hydrops with demise in one pregnancy, followed by a pregnancy treated with multiple intrauterine fetal transfusions.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abortion, Spontaneous / etiology
  • Adult
  • Blood Transfusion
  • Blood Transfusion, Intrauterine
  • Erythroblastosis, Fetal / immunology*
  • Erythroblastosis, Fetal / therapy
  • Female
  • Fetal Blood / immunology
  • Fetal Death / immunology
  • Fetal Diseases / immunology*
  • Fetal Diseases / therapy
  • Humans
  • Hydrops Fetalis / immunology
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Isoantibodies / immunology*
  • Kell Blood-Group System / immunology*
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications / immunology*

Substances

  • Isoantibodies
  • Kell Blood-Group System