In utero treatment of severe fetal anaemia due to parvovirus B19 in one fetus in a twin pregnancy - A case report and literature review

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 153-157

  Bekhit, M T ^a   Greenwood, P A ^a   Warren, R ^b   Aarons, E ^c   Jauniaux, E ^d  

^a JAMES PAGET UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d Napolitano and Prof David)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discordant infection; Fetal anaemia; Parvovirus B19; Twin pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ANEMIA; FETUS HYDROPS; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; KARYOTYPING; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PARVOVIRUS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN PREGNANCY; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, INTRAUTERINE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; HUMANS; HYDROPS FETALIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE;

EID: 62049083479     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000209200     Document Type: Article

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