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Background: This research evaluated the association between the mother-infant blood type or rhesus (ABO or Rh) incompatibility, the pattern of neonatal jaundice, and serum bilirubin (TSB) values obtained prior to discharge from hospital of healthy born neonates with gestational age >34 weeks and birth weight >2000 g.
Methods: We utilized a laboratory and neonatal database to identify the cord blood ABO/Rh and direct antiglobulin test (DAT) and TSB measured during hospitalization and re-admission with hyperbilirubinemia for phototherapy treatment. We used hour-specific TSB to analyze the TSB levels for ABO/Rh compatibility and isoimmunization using chi-square, analysis of variance, and regression models.
Results: Of the 901 infants studied, 158 (17.5%) had ABO/Rh incompatibility, including 27 with positive DAT. Hyperbilirubinemia was diagnosed in 33.3% DAT positive, 6.9% DAT negative, and 4.6% of infants with compatible blood types. Increased predischarge TSB was observed in DAT positive infants at 48-72 h of postnatal age (P < 0.001). After controlling for age at TSB testing and weight loss percentage, multiple regression analysis did not show any impact of ABO/Rh incompatibility and DAT results on the predischarge TSB levels.
Conclusion: Blood type incompatibility increases the frequency of hyperbilirubinemia only in the DAT-positive infants. Irrespective of the isoimmunization status, it does not significantly affect the level of predischarge TSB.
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