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To KB or Not to KB, That Is the Question

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A 36-year-old woman, with no significant past medical history, is status post vaginal delivery of a baby at term pregnancy. The postdelivery hematocrit (Hct) is 30%, and the patient weighs 65 kg. The patient is known to have received prenatal Rh immunoglobulin (RhIg) at 28 weeks, at which time the antibody screen was negative. A type and screen sample (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [EDTA] anticoagulant) is submitted to the blood bank along with the cord blood sample from the baby and a request for postpartum RhIg.

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  1. Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USA

    Mark T. Friedman & Jeffrey S. Jhang

  2. Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Kamille A. West

  3. Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Peyman Bizargity

  4. Department of Pathology, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

    Kyle Annen

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Friedman, M.T., West, K.A., Bizargity, P., Annen, K., Jhang, J.S. (2018). To KB or Not to KB, That Is the Question. In: Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90960-8_25

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