thrombocytopenia

Amongst the maternal risk factors, the most common risk factors associated with fetal stroke are alloimmune thrombocytopenia and trauma (2) .

A prenatal diagnosis of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia would have allowed for treatment with gamma globulin, which could have avoided the intracranial hemorrhage.

Keywords: Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, diagnosis, treatment

HIV infection, systemic lupus erythematosus, lymphoproliferative disorders, myelodysplasia, agammaglobulinemia or hypogammaglobulinemia, drug-induced thrombocytopenia, alloimmune thrombocytopenia, congenital hereditary nonimmune thrombocytopenia) .

Immune thrombocytopenia, neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, and post-transfusion purpura.

She had already lost two baby boys because she has neo-natal alloimmune thrombocytopenia - a condition where her antibodies attack platelets in the foetus's blood stopping it clotting.

Catherine had lost two boys in the womb because of her condition, neo-natal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.

Catherine, 30, had already lost two baby boys in the womb because of the same condition called neo-natal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.

Catherine and husband Ian, 27, had decided to give up on parenthood, but a TV documentary about the condition - neo-natal alloimmune thrombocytopenia - changed their minds.