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Low Concentrations of Serum Haptoglobin in Mothers of Children with Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn

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THE ante-partum prognosis of foetal haemolytic disease is very difficult. The presence and titre of antibodies discovered in pregnancy are not always comparable with the seriousness of the clinical manifestations in the newborn; in the case of an incompatibility in the ABO system not even this guide is available, so that for this purpose new methods are persistently being sought1.

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PINTERA, J. Low Concentrations of Serum Haptoglobin in Mothers of Children with Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn. Nature 208, 694–695 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208694b0

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