Successful exchange transfusion of an infant for AIHA developing late in mother's pregnancy.
A 25-year-old woman with apparently inactive Hodgkin's disease developed fulminant autoimmune hemolytic anemia in the 37th week of pregnancy. The baby required four exchange transfusions for hyperbilirubinemia. The same IgG antibody was found in mother and infant.
D000328:Adult; D000744:Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D017707:Erythrocyte Transfusion; D005078:Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood; D005260:Female; D006388:Hemagglutinins / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007567:Jaundice, Neonatal / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D008431:Maternal-Fetal Exchange; D011247:Pregnancy; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third
D006388:Hemagglutinins