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A 26-year-old woman presents at 28 weeks of gestation for Rh immune globulin (RhIg) injection. A type and screen sample (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [EDTA] anticoagulant) is submitted to the blood bank.

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Friedman, M.T., West, K.A., Bizargity, P., Annen, K., Jhang, J.S. (2018). G-Force. In: Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90960-8_11

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