Name: Phototherapy of jaundice in newborn infants. I. ABO blood group incompatibility
Keywords: Male, Light, Pigmentation, Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic, Racial Groups, Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood, Infant, Newborn, Bilirubin, ABO Blood-Group System, Jaundice, Neonatal

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1971 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:The Journal of Pediatrics, volume 79, pages 904-910 (issn: 0022-3476,

Authors: Stanley C. Glauser; Norman Kendall; Susan Knutson; Thomas R. C. Sisson; Emorn Bunyaviroch;

doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(71)80182-8

pmid: 5132302

Phototherapy of jaundice in newborn infants. I. ABO blood group incompatibility

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A controlled study of phototherapy was carried out in 35 infants with neonatal hyperbilirubinemia due to maternal-fetal ABO blood group incompatibility. Sixteen of the subjects weighed less than 2,500 Gm. at birth, and 19 weighed 2,500 Gm. or more. Phototherapy caused a marked decline of serum bilirubin concentration at a time when such levels were rising in the control infants and prevented mean peak bilirubin concentrations in the treated infants from reaching the levels attained by the control infants. No treated infants required exchange transfusion, but 5 of the control infants did. The heavier skin pigmentation in Negro subjects did not reduce the effectiveness of phototherapy.

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Male, Light, Pigmentation, Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic, Racial Groups, Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood, Infant, Newborn, Bilirubin, ABO Blood-Group System, Jaundice, Neonatal, Pregnancy, Blood Group Incompatibility, Birth Weight, Humans, Female, Hyperbilirubinemia

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