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Rhesus Pieces

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A 25-year-old female, now 37 weeks pregnant and without any complications throughout the pregnancy, presents for a routine prenatal clinic visit. A type and screen sample (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, EDTA anticoagulant) is submitted to the blood bank.

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  1. St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and Beth Israel Medical Centers Department of Pathology, Blood Bank and Transfusion Service, The Mount Sinai Health System, New York, New York, USA

    Mark T. Friedman

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

    Kamille A. West

  3. St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and Beth Israel Medical Centers Department of Pathology, The Mount Sinai Health System, New York, New York, USA

    Peyman Bizargity

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Friedman, M., West, K., Bizargity, P. (2016). Rhesus Pieces. In: Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22342-1_2

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