Simple non-invasive prenatal detection of Hb Bart's disease by analysis of fetal erythrocytes in maternal blood

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-128

  Lau, Elizabeth T ^a   Kwok, Yvonne K ^b   Luo, Hong Yuan ^c   Leung, K Y ^a   Lee, C P ^a   Lam, Y H ^b   Chui, David H K ^c   Tang, Mary H Y ^a  

^a TSAN YUK HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Globin; Hb Bart's; Noninvasive

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; DELTA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; HEMOGLOBIN BART; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MATERNAL BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GLOBINS; HEMOGLOBINS, ABNORMAL; HUMANS; HYDROPS FETALIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 14744267781     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1096     Document Type: Article

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