Management of cold agglutinin-immune hemolytic anemia in pregnancy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 110, Issue 2 II, 2007, Pages 485-486

  Dhingra, Simi ^a,b   Wiener, J J ^a   Jackson, Helen ^a  

^a ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD AGGLUTININ; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; AUTOANTIBODY; COLD AGGLUTININS; CRYOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; COLD HEMAGGLUTININ DISEASE; COOMBS TEST; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTOSIS; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WARMING; BLOOD; COLD; ERYTHROCYTE; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; AUTOANTIBODIES; COLD; COOMBS' TEST; CRYOGLOBULINS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 34548441126     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000259908.18243.f0     Document Type: Article

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