Hyperbilirubinæmia in Premature Infants Treated by Exchange Blood Transfusion

Congenital Thrombocytopenic Purpura Treated by Exchange Transfusion.

The occurrence of thrombocytopenic purpura in babies born to mothers with idiopathic thrombocytopenia is a well recognized though uncommon clinical entity. Robson and Walker (1951) were able to collect from the literature only 19 definite and nine probable examples of this association. The suggestion of Epstein, Lozner, Cobbey and Davidson (1950) that this type of congenital thrombocytopenic pu...

Hydrops foetalis successfully treated by exchange transfusion.

Cases of Rhesus incompatibility resulting in the condition known as hydrops foetalis do badly. Mollison and Cutbush (1954) state 'it is doubtful if infants born with ascites ever survive', and it is difficult to find any record of survival. Heilig, Tudor, Smith and Platou (1948) report two cases of hydrops, one of which survived with a hemiplegia. Van Loghem, van Bolhuis, Soeters and Veeneklaas...

Glucagon, insulin, and growth hormone response to exchange transfusion in premature and term infants.

were performed on premature or term infants using blood preserved with acid citrate and glucose. The plasma concentrations of glucose, free fatty acids, insulin, glucagon, and growth hormone were measured in the donor blood and in blood from the infant at different times during the transfusion. The total amounts of metabolite and hormone infused and removed from the infant were calculated. The ...

Extended exchange transfusion in pre-hydropic infants.

Exchange transfusion in the immediate treatment of haemolytic disease of the newborn is now a fully established procedure with more or less agreed indications for its use (Allen and Diamond, 1957). Up till now the procedure has been mainly used to prevent kernikterus and in this it has been eminently successful both in the 'clinical ' and the ' pathological' varieties of this condition. It can ...

Why is it important to assess indications for red blood cell transfusion in premature infants?