A Cross- Sectional study of Admitted Neonates for Therapy with Jaundice Through the year 2019 as a Result of ABO Incompatibility at Tarhuna Educational Hospital

• Tawfg Omar Abdlmola

  Department of medical laboratory, Faculty of Medical technology, Azzaytuna University -Libya.

  Author

• Ali Guma Azbida

  Department of medical laboratory, Faculty of Medical technology, Azzaytuna University -Libya

  Author

One of the most common causes of neonatal jaundice is ABO incompatibility. Maternal fetal ABO blood group incompatibility, in which the mother has blood group O and the newborn has blood group A and B occurs in 15-20% of all pregnancies. The jaundice of neonates due to ABO incompatibility is one of the problems that newborns suffer during the first week of their lives. The study aims: to find out the prevalence of jaundice due to ABO incompatibility in the Tarhuna Education Hospital. Material and method: A number of 214 newborns have been studied at Tarhuna Education Hospital from January to December 2019. Information was collected from the archive through a form on the information on the disease. Data were analyzed by Microsoft Excel 2007 for percentages.  Result: Through the results obtained, it was found that (58.88%) the neonate was male and (41.12%) females from 214 hospitalized neonates. The percentage of neonates without jaundice was (%53.27), while the total of jaundiced neonates represented (46.73%). There was (%29.91) of neonatal jaundice due to other causes while (16.82%) of them as a result of ABO incompatibility. Conclusion: It has been found that (16.82%) jaundiced neonates due to ABO incompatibility and jaundice neonate due to other case (29.9%). jaundiced neonates as a result of ABO incompatibility in mothers blood group O+ most occurs exclusively in infant with baby's blood group A + which showed 44.44% while B+ and A- represented (16.67 %) and (13.89 %) respectively.

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