Top-up transfusions in neonates with Rh hemolytic disease in relation to exchange transfusions

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-70

  Rath, M E A ^a   Smits Wintjens, V E H J ^a   Lindenburg, I ^a   Brand, A ^b   Oepkes, D ^a   Walther, F J ^a   Lopriore, E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Sanquin Bloedbank Regio Zuidwest Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exchange transfusion; Intrauterine transfusion; Neonatal anemia; Rh hemolytic disease; Top up transfusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ANEMIA, NEONATAL; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROBLASTOSIS, FETAL; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; RH ISOIMMUNIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEMIA, NEONATAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROBLASTOSIS, FETAL; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RH ISOIMMUNIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953522849     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2010.01307.x     Document Type: Article

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