Antecedentes históricos de nuestra Revista: la cesárea abdominal y la exanguinotransfusión en la profilaxis de la muerte neonatal por enfermedad hemolítica: contribución casuística / Historical background of our journal: the abdominal cesarean section and exchange transfusion in the prophylaxis of hemolytic disease of the newborn death: Casuistic contribution

We have studied cases of neonatal hemolytic disease. In one, a child born of a cesarean operation, offered a benign clinical aspearance during the first two days, and the exsanguinotransfusion was omitted, the child died from grave hemolytic icterus that started on the third day. The other case, a child born from a normal labour with severe anemia, purpura, and an important hemolytic blood picture and absence of platelets, underwent the exsanguinotransfusion, recovering rapidly.