O36.1: Maternal care for other isoimmunization
Your unborn child and you have different blood groups.
Blood is made up of blood plasma and different blood cells. The blood cells include red blood cells. They carry oxygen from the lungs throughout the body. In red blood cells there are particular characteristics. These characteristics are used as the basis for differentiating between blood groups. A distinction is drawn, for example, between blood groups A, B, AB and O.
When the mother and the unborn child have different blood groups, the maternal body can produce antibodies. The antibodies attack the child’s red blood cells. In certain cases these antibodies can get to the child and damage its red blood cells. This can create problems for the child.
Additional indicator
On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.
- G: Confirmed diagnosis
- V: Tentative diagnosis
- Z: Condition after
- A: Excluded diagnosis
- L: Left
- R: Right
- B: Both sides
Further information
Source
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