Fetal anemia as a response to prophylactic platelet transfusion in the management of alloimmune thrombocytopenia.

Am J Obstet Gynecol

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Saint Luke's Regional Laboratories, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, MO 64111, USA.

Published: September 2003

The antenatal management of alloimmune thrombocytopenia (ATP) frequently requires fetal blood sampling and prophylactic platelet transfusion. A recent case of ATP complicated by associated red blood cell alloimmunization demonstrated severe hemolysis apparently as a result of ABO incompatibility from transfused platelets.

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