Continuous fetal heart rate monitoring during bone marrow harvesting in pregnancy.
To date, our computer-assisted search failed to report any case involving a gravid patient donating her bone marrow for harvesting. It is known that bone marrow harvesting causes a significant decrease in the donor's blood volume and therefore this can be potentially detrimental to both the mother and the fetus. We report the first case of the gravid donor in which fetal heart rate (FHR) during bone marrow harvesting has been studied. Decreased beat to beat variability and disappearance of accelerations were noted. The FHR returned to normal shortly after the procedure was terminated.
Jones
M D
MD
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, USA.
Petrikovsky
B M
BM
Sahdev
I
I
Prisco
M
M
D000293:Adolescent; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D005260:Female; D005323:Fetal Monitoring; D006340:Heart Rate, Fetal / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D014019:Tissue Donors