Intrauterine Transfusion of Foetus in Haemolytic Disease

Intrauterine Transfusion for Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn.

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Developmental outcome after intravascular intrauterine transfusion for rhesus haemolytic disease.

The development outcome of 16 infants who had rhesus disease was assessed at 18 months. Eight had received intravascular intrauterine transfusion and eight postnatal exchange transfusions. There was no difference in developmental outcome and neither group was different from the population as a whole.

Exchange transfusion in haemolytic disease of the newborn.

In a previous study by Anderson, Smith and Walker (1961), it was observed that in four out of 100 infants undergoing exchange transfusion for haemolytic disease of the newborn, a rise of blood pyruvate occurred during the procedure. It was suggested that the rise of blood pyruvate might be due either to the metabolic action of citrate or glucose, and that this biochemical change might be relate...

Congenital cytomegalic inclusion disease following intrauterine transfusion.

Congenital cytomegalic inclusion disease occurring in two infants who received intrauterine transfusions for severe haemolytic disease due to rhesus isoimmunization may have been transmitted in the donor blood.

[Intrauterine transfusion].