Article
Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia: current considerations.
Annals of clinical and laboratory science - 1 Jan 2000
Glassman A B, Shieh W J
Abstract excerpt
Some mothers produce antibodies to the platelet antigens of their fetuses. Exposure to these antigens may occur owing to prior transfusions or through feto-maternal hemorrhage during gestation or delivery. The sensitizing antigen is usually an epitope of one of the glycoproteins (GP) found on the...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Blood Platelets
- Epitopes
- Female
- Humans
- Isoantigens
- Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins
- Thrombocytopenia