Severe iron overload and hyporegenerative anemia in a case with rhesus hemolytic disease: therapeutic approach to rare complications

A 33 weeks’ gestation, a baby with rhesus hemolytic disease (RHD), who had received intrauterine transfusions twice, developed cholestatic hepatic disease and late hyporegenerative anemia. Her serum ferritin and bilirubin levels increased to 8842 ng/ml and 17.9 mg/dl, respectively. Liver biopsy show...

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Main Authors: Fatih Demircioğlu, Şule Çağlayan Sözmen, Şebnem Yılmaz, Hale Ören, Nur Arslan, Abdullah Kumral, Erdener Özer, Gülersu İrken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Galenos Publishing House 2010-09-01
Series:Turkish Journal of Hematology
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Online Access:http://www.journalagent.com/z4/download_fulltext.asp?pdir=tjh&plng=eng&un=TJH-49469