Research conducted at Karolinska University, Karolinska Institute has updated our knowledge about anemia vaccines

Fresh data on anemia are presented in the report "Fetal hemolytic anemia and intrauterine death caused by anti-M immunization. Antibodies with anti-M specificity are detected in 10 percent of pregnant women with a positive antibody screen, but anti-M is only rarely associated with hemolytic anemia in the fetus This study reports on three pregnancies in one family that all resulted in severe fetal anemia. The first fetus died in utero with hydrops fetalis during the 20th gestational week and the second child was delivered after 28 weeks of gestation with hydrops fetalis and a hemoglobin level of 16 g per L whereas the third affected child was treated with intrauterine red cell (RBC)...

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