[Intrauterine transfusion].

Intrauterine blood transfusion: current indications and associated risks.

Fetal anemia is a serious complication in pregnancy and associated with perinatal mortality and morbidity. During 25 years of worldwide experience with intravascular intrauterine blood transfusion, a variety of indications have been described. Intrauterine transfusion (IUT) treatment is considered most successful for fetal anemia due to red cell alloimmunization. Moreover, the use of this proce...

Intrauterine blood transfusion in immune hydrops fetalis, corrects middle cerebral artery Doppler velocimetry very quickly.

The aim of our study was to evaluate the middle cerebral artery velocimetry before and after intrauterine blood transfusion in immune hydrops fetalis. The current study was conducted in a tertiary research hospital, from February 2009 to January 2011. Nineteen intrauterine blood transfusions performed during the study period. The factors recorded were age of the mothers, gestational weeks, pre-...

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.

A proven case of maternal alloimmunization due to Duffy antigens in donor blood used for intrauterine transfusion.

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.

Rh alloimmunization and term delivery.

Nowadays management of severe Rh alloimmunization consists of serial determination of middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity, amniocentesis, cordocentesis, and in many instances intrauterine transfusion. We present a case of severe Rh alloimmunization who, for the first time in Iran, was delivered at term after several intrauterine transfusions.