Re: PAP Smear after TAH <atb scrren rh+ obs>

From: mark decker (mdecker@nconnect.net)
Tue Dec 31 19:46:35 1996


>
> And talking abouth cost-effective... I don't found any background
>for asking for "antibodies" as a routine in a rH positive pregnant women
>with no obstetrics history of IUD and I don't do it.. Am I wrong?
> Antonio Valdez-Torres MD FACOG
> Hospital Guernika
> Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

well I do find atb I should follow in 2 people a year out of 200..usually 240 deliveries a year. seems that is my pick up rate on unknowns.

I get 1-2 people a year with known atb that may devleop serious HDN.

I pick up a fair number of innocuous atb's that do not cause HDN so the 2 people I pick up as previous unknowns has to do with atb types thaty may develop HDN.

Is it cost effective?? so far no one has had to have a transfusion though I have had to do serial amnio's a few times in 7-8 years in my current practice. every one else had low atb titers on serial screens that I was not compelled to check amnios on them. Mark

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