INTRODUCTION The Italian Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology (SIMTI) carried out a survey on the current use of anti-D immunoprophylaxis (IP) in Italy, on its ways of use and on the impact that it has had on decreasing haemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN), due to maternal-foetal incompatibility for the D antigen. MATERIALS AND METHODS The survey was carried out using a qu...

Objectives: To observe the clinical presentation of late haemorrhagic disease of the newborn (LHDNB), and clinical improvement after the administration of vitamin K1. Methodology: This is a prospective descriptive study. All the children older than seven days who presented with bleeding were admitted in pediatrics ward of Isra University Hyderabad from April 2006 to April 2007 were included. Da...