Transfusion Medicine
Haemolytic disease of the newborn (HDFN) due to alloanti-LW is described as mild and very rare, even the very potent anti-LWab of one known patient caused minimal evidence of HDFN in her three pregnancies. To date auto anti-LW has only been implicated as the cause of one case of HDFN.
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