[Advantages of polyethylene glycol in comparison to bovine serum albumin in the indirect antiglobulin test in pregnant women].

Results of indirect antiglobulin test (IAT) adding polyethylene glycol (PEG) were compared with conventional IAT performed using bovine serume albumin (BSA) with the aim of prenatal protection of Rh(D) negative pregnant women. Investigation enrolled 986 samples of pregnant women sera and confirmed that the use of PEG-IAT increased the degree of detection of clinically significant antierythrocyte antibodies. Above all, form the Rhesus blood groups system (using exclusively PEG-IAT) was detected by one antibody of anti-D, anti-C, anti-e and two anti-E), while by using BSA, anti-e was not detected at all. Besides, the need for additional serologic techniques has been reduced (treating of erythrocytes by enzymes) and the work of laboratories for prenatal protection has been alleviated, and at the same time the quality of analyses was not diminished, which gave the preference to PEG-IAT compared to BSA-IAT in prenatal testing.