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Incompatibilidade de Rh

Last reviewed: 11 Sep 2025
Last updated: 11 Apr 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
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Risk factors

  • história de feto RhD-positivo em mãe RhD negativa
  • hemorragia feto-materna
  • procedimentos fetais invasivos
  • trauma placentário
  • aborto
  • multiparidade
  • omissão da imunoprofilaxia de Rh
  • versão cefálica externa
  • gravidez molar
  • gravidez ectópica
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • tipo sanguíneo materno
  • exame de anticorpos Rh no soro materno
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Tests to consider

  • título de anticorpos séricos materno
  • tipo sanguíneo paterno
  • zigosidade paterna
  • ultrassonografia fetal
  • velocimetria Doppler da artéria cerebral média do feto (pico de velocidade sistólica)
  • tipagem sanguínea do feto (decorrente de amniocentese ou circulação materna)
  • avaliação direta de anemia fetal
  • teste de roseta
  • teste de Kleihauer-Betke/citometria de fluxo
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Treatment algorithm

INITIAL

mãe RhD-negativa não sensibilizada

mãe RhD-negativa sensibilizada

ACUTE

neonato com eritroblastose

Contributors

Authors

Andrew D. Hull, MD, FRCOG, FACOG

​Professor of Clinical Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences

Director, UC San Diego Maternal-Fetal Care and Genetics

Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences

University of California San Diego

La Jolla

CA

Disclosures

ADH declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Andrew D. Hull would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Karen Fung-Kee-Fung and Dr Felipe Moretti, previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

KFKF is an author of a reference cited in this topic. KFKF and FM declare that they have no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Alan Cameron, MD

Honorary Professor of Medicine

University of Glasgow

Glasgow

UK

Disclosures

AC is an author of several references cited in this topic.

Liakat Ali Parapia, MD, FRCP

Consultant Hematologist

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Yorkshire Clinic

Bingley

Bradford

UK

Disclosures

LAP declares that he has no competing interests.

Kenneth J. Moise, Jr., MD

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Texas Children's Fetal Center

Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital

Houston

TX

Disclosures

KJM declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Brennand J, Cameron A. Fetal anaemia: diagnosis and management. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2008 Feb;22(1):15-29. Abstract

American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. ACOG practice bulletin no. 181: prevention of Rh D alloimmunization. Obstet Gynecol. 2017 Aug;130(2):e57-70. Abstract

American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology. ACOG practice bulletin no. 192: management of alloimmunization during pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol. 2018 Mar;131(3):e82-90. Abstract

Qureshi H, Massey E, Kirwan D, et al. BCSH guideline for the use of anti-D immunoglobulin for the prevention of haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn. Transfus Med. 2014 Feb;24(1):8-20.Full text  Abstract

Visser GHA, Thommesen T, Di Renzo GC, et al. FIGO/ICM guidelines for preventing Rhesus disease: a call to action. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2021 Feb;152(2):144-7.Full text  Abstract

Reference articles

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