Comparison of platelet counts in first and second newborns of mothers with immune thrombocytopenic purpura

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 546-552

  Christiaens, Godelieve C M L ^a,b   Nieuwenhuis, H Karel ^a,b   Bussel, James B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREDNISONE;

ARTICLE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PARITY; PLATELET COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0030987640     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(97)00349-9     Document Type: Article

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