IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 46 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.12891/ceog4415.2019

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Open Access Case Report
Fetal anaemia: two clinical cases with fetal blood transfusion
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1 Hospital da Senhora da Oliveira - Guimarães, Portugal
2 Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Maternidade Bissaya Barreto, Coimbra, Portugal
*Correspondence: pedrofigueiredoficial@gmail.com (P. MARCOS-FIGUEIREDO)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2019, 46(1), 164–167; https://doi.org/10.12891/ceog4415.2019
Published: 10 February 2019
Abstract

Fetal anaemia in pregnancy, although less prevalent since the introduction of anti-D immunoglobulin, remains a clinical issue. In this article the authors describe two clinical cases of challenging fetal anaemia; the first following a parvovirus B19 infection during pregnancy and the second after Rh isoimmunization (due to Rh positive maternal transfusions in childhood), sooner and more severe in a second pregnancy. A brief review of the topic was also conducted.

Keywords
Fetal anaemia
Parvovirus
Transfusion
Systolic peak middle cerebral artery
Fetal transfusion
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