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Maternal alloimmunization against the rare platelet‐specific antigen HPA‐9b (Max<sup>a</sup>) is an important cause of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
10 Aug 2005
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BACKGROUND: Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NATP) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the newborn. Optimal management of subsequent pregnancies requires knowledge of the alloantigen that caused maternal immunization, but this is possible only in a minority of cases. This study investigated whether this can be explained in part by maternal immunization against the "rare" alloantigen HPA-9b...
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