Exchange transfusions and top-up transfusions in neonates with Kell haemolytic disease compared to Rh D haemolytic disease

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 312-316

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

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intrauterine transfusion; Kell haemolytic disease; Neonatal anaemia; Rh haemolytic disease; Top up transfusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ERYTHROBLASTOSIS, FETAL; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KELL BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; PHOTOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 79952498239     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2010.01408.x     Document Type: Article

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