Fetal anaemia: diagnosis and management.
Fetal anaemia can by treated by in-utero therapy, which results in a significant improvement in perinatal outcome. The important causes of fetal anaemia are rhesus alloimmunisation, kell alloimmunisation and parvovirus infection. At-risk pregnancies require serial monitoring to ensure timely intervention with intrauterine transfusion. Non-invasive testing with middle cerebral artery Doppler is becoming the monitoring modality of choice.
Brennand
Janet
J
The Queen Mother's Hospital, Glasgow, UK. Janet.Brennand@yorkhill.scot.nhs.uk
Cameron
Alan
A
D000740:Anemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D001805:Blood Transfusion, Intrauterine / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007626:Kell Blood-Group System / Q000276:immunology; D020768:Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D016732:Parvovirus B19, Human; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000379:methods; D012203:Rh Isoimmunization / Q000150:complications; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal / Q000379:methods
D007626:Kell Blood-Group System