Anti-D quantitation post IUT

[Johnquigley]

Dear All

I am writing a paper and I am finding difficulty sourcing a reference for the following statement I am making in the paper. I know I have read it somewhere but for some reason I cannot find it now

Background: once an Intrauterine transfusion has happened, the transfusion procedure itself is known to increase antibody levels. Therefore carrying out serial quantitations post IUT are unnecessary as the patient will be closely monitored by MCA Doppler US.

Best wishes

John

[Malcolm Needs ☆]

As far as I know, this has yet to appear in print (although I may be wrong).

Certainly, the RCOG are very close to publishing their Guidelines on red cell antibodies in pregnancy, and this will be included in that, and the BCSH are about to re-write their Guidelines for antibodies in pregnancy (I'm on the writing group) and it will also appear in this document, but, whether it has actually been published anywhere else already, I don't know.

[Johnquigley]

Thanks Malcolm looking forward to the new guidelines.

[Kimster]

John,

 

 I would look at any publications by Giancarlo Mari MD at University of TN, the doppler is his topic and also Ken Moise MD he really is the guru of HDFM.