HealthDay News — For pregnancies at high risk for early-onset severe hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN), intravenous nipocalimab can delay or prevent fetal anemia or intrauterine ...

Doctors perform an Intrauterine Fetal Transfusion on an unborn baby at KNH. [Courtesy] A team of doctors including Rosa Chemwey, Flavia Ogutu, Ikol Adung'o and Kunjira Murayi at the Kenyatta ...

Since most pregnant women are screened and given RhoGAM injections if they are RH negative, intrauterine fetal blood transfusions for this reason are not very common—less than 10 in 10,000 ...

Dr. Bettina Paek likely saved a life after flying more than 3,200 miles to perform the first ultrasound-guided intrauterine transfusion in Jamaica in late July. Paek, 49, is an attending physician ...

Follow-up Dopplers are done every 1-2 weeks, and if the cut-off point of > 1.5 is reached or surpassed, cordocentesis is scheduled and intrauterine transfusion for fetal hematocrit < 30% is performed.

Nipocalimab resulted in more live births at 32 weeks’ gestation or later without fetal anemia or intrauterine transfusion for pregnancies at risk for early-onset severe hemolytic disease of the ...

Historically, intrauterine transfusion of "compatible red cells for the treatment of severe HDFN was introduced into clinical practice more than 60 years ago," Moise told MedPage Today in an email.

Selective intrauterine growth restriction was defined as an estimated fetal weight below the 10th percentile in one twin at 18 to 26 weeks of gestation. Serum N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic ...

Fetal Loss: Addressing the Evaluation and Supporting the Emotional Needs of Parents Amelia Rowland, CNM, MSN; William H. Goodnight, MD, MSCR Disclosures J Midwifery Womens Health. 2009;54 (3):241-248.

During the 4 intraperitoneal fetal-transfusion procedures 18 films of the mother's abdomen were taken, representing an estimated radiation dosage of 5.56 r to the fetal gonads.