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Having studied the programme for the Symposium and having no wish to duplicate the advice given to other speakers, I decided that for the benefit of the younger members of the audience it would perhaps not be inappropriate to review briefly the whole intriguing subject of Rhesus incompatibility and its management. I will not take time to refer to the unravelling of the mysteries of aetiology, although that story is in itself a fascinating one, with inevitable arguments about who was really first to solve the problem. A study of the abundant literature does suggest that the credit should go to Levine and Stetson9 who published their paper entitled “An unusual case of intra-group agglutination” in 1939. Although not strictly a comment on exchange transfusion as such, I quote the following passage from my own undergraduate paediatric textbook, under the heading “Familial Icterus Gravis”.
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Kerr, M.M. (1982). Progress in Exchange Transfusion Techniques. In: Sibinga, C.T.S., Das, P.C., Forfar, J.O. (eds) Paediatrics and Blood Transfusion. Developments in Hematology and Immunology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7520-0_17
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