Fetal Cytokine Balance, Erythropoietin and Thalassemia but Not Placental Malaria Contribute to Fetal Anemia Risk in Tanzania [PDF]
Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Fetal anemia is common in malaria-endemic areas and a risk factor for anemia as well as mortality during infancy. Placental malaria (PM) and red cell abnormalities have been proposed as possible etiologies, but the relationship between PM and fetal ...
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Conservative Management of Presumed Fetal Anemia Secondary to Maternal Chemotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia [PDF]
American Journal of Perinatology Reports, 2021 Acute myeloid leukemia occurs rarely during pregnancy. When it is diagnosed remote from term, treatment in the form of daunorubicin plus cytarabine induction with consolidative cytarabine is typically undertaken after the first trimester. There is little
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Extremely Rare Case of Fetal Anemia Due to Mitochondrial Disease Managed with Intrauterine Transfusion [PDF]
Medicina, 2022 This report describes a rare case of fetal anemia, confirmed as a mitochondrial disease after birth, treated with intrauterine transfusion (IUT). Although mitochondrial diseases have been described in newborns, research on their prenatal features is ...
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Middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity monitoring of fetal anemia during chemotherapy in pregnancy [PDF]
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica ScandinavicaIntroduction Chemotherapy during pregnancy can increase the risk of fetal anemia. Severe fetal anemia can lead to the development of hydrops fetalis and potentially fetal demise.
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Glucose‐6‐phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency as a cause for nonimmune hydrops fetalis and severe fetal anemia: A systematic review [PDF]
Molecular Genetics & Genomic MedicineBackground Glucose‐6‐phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is an X‐linked recessive disorder that predisposes individuals to hemolysis due to an inborn error of metabolism.
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The Effect of Amelioration of Anemia on the Synthesis of Fetal Hemoglobin in Sickle Cell Anemia [PDF]
Blood, 1965 Abstract Two adult patients with sickle cell anemia of blood group A and A2B respectively, received sufficient transfusions of group O blood to maintain nearly normal hemoglobin concentrations for 4 months or longer. Serial samples of the erythrocytes of each recipient were obtained by agglutination with anti-A (and anti-B)
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Diagnostic value of fetal hemoglobin Bart’s for evaluation of fetal α-thalassemia syndromes: application to prenatal characterization of fetal anemia caused by undiagnosed α-hemoglobinopathy [PDF]
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2022 Background To evaluate whether the quantification of fetal hemoglobin (Hb) Bart’s is useful for differentiation of α-thalassemia syndromes in the fetus and to characterize the fetal anemia associated with fetal α-hemoglobinopathy.
Kritsada Singha +6 more
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The Accelerated Right Ventricular Failure in Fetal Anemia in the Presence of Restrictive Foramen Ovale [PDF]
Diagnostics, 2022 Objective: To describe serious hemodynamic changes secondary to anemia in the case of restrictive foramen ovale (FO). Case: A 43-year-old pregnant woman, G4P0030, underwent fetal echocardiography at 35 weeks of gestation and was found to have (1 ...
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Serial intrauterine transfusion for severe fetal anemia due to anti-M alloimmunization [PDF]
Asian Journal of Transfusion ScienceAnti-M antibody is one of the causes of severe fetal anemia and intrauterine death despite its relatively low frequency. A G3P2 26-year-old pregnant woman referred to our hospital at 29 weeks gestational age (WGA) with fetal hydrops. Her second pregnancy
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Maternal isoimmunization associated fetal anemia: A case report [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary CareMaternal isoimmunization occurs when a pregnant woman develops an immune reaction due to the inheritance of a red-cell antigen, which is paternally derived and can result in fetal anemia, hemolysis, fetal death, and hydrops fetalis as the antibodies ...
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