Early intraperitoneal transfusion and adjuvant maternal immunoglobulin therapy in the treatment of severe red cell alloimmunization prior to fetal intravascular transfusion

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-163

  Fox, C ^a   Martin, W ^a   Somerset, D A ^a   Thompson, P J ^a   Kilby, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjuvant maternal immunoglobulin therapy; Early intraperitoneal transfusion; Fetal intravascular transfusion; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Red cell alloimmunization; Severe red cell alloimmunization, treatment

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MORTALITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; OPIATE ADDICTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, INTRAUTERINE; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROBLASTOSIS, FETAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; PREGNANCY; RH ISOIMMUNIZATION;

EID: 40049085607     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111599     Document Type: Article

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