It is when the mother has antibodies in her blood to the baby's blood group and the antibodies cross the placenta and start breaking down the baby's red blood cells causing hemolytic anemia. The most common is when a previously sensitised Rhesus Negative mother has a Rhesus positive baby, but ABO incompatibbility is not unknown. See the weblinks for further ionfromation.
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What is Erythroblastosis?
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the mother with an injection, the drug is called RhoGAM.
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erythroblastosis fetalis
Causes Symptoms Diagnosis Treatment And if not treated.....DEATH! :(
erythroblastosis is a very serious condition for approximately 4,000 babies annually. In about 15% of cases, the baby is severely affected and dies before birth.
Hemolytic disease of the newborn is known as erythroblastosis fetalis
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus is the website the full URL of the document is http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001298.htm This URL leads to a very good article on erythroblastosis fetalis, i couldn't put in the full text, as it is copyrighted, but the website seems very good, this should help you
Erythroblastosis fetalis is a potentially life threatening blood disorder in fetus or new born infant. It happens when the mother possesses Rh negative blood where the foetus posses Rh positive blood which turns it weak anaemic nd jaundiced or in severe case death of the foetus occurs..