Article
Haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn due to anti-Fy(a) and the potential clinical value of Duffy genotyping in pregnancies at risk.
Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) - 1 Dec 1997
Goodrick M J, Hadley A G, Poole G
Abstract excerpt
Haemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) caused by anti-Fy(a) is uncommon and usually mild. Current guidelines recommend that pregnant women with anti-Fy(a) are monitored less rigorously than those with anti-D, -c or -K. However, in a review of our recent experience of 68 pregnancies where anti-Fy...
Topics
- Blood Group Incompatibility
- Coombs Test
- Disease Management
- Duffy Blood-Group System
- Erythroblastosis, Fetal
- Female
- Fetal Blood
- Fetus
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Isoantibodies
- Luminescent Measurements
- Male
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Outcome
- Retrospective Studies