Hydrops Foetalis Successfully Treated by Exchange Transfusion
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Hydrops foetalis successfully treated by exchange transfusion.
Cases of Rhesus incompatibility resulting in the condition known as hydrops foetalis do badly. Mollison and Cutbush (1954) state 'it is doubtful if infants born with ascites ever survive', and it is difficult to find any record of survival. Heilig, Tudor, Smith and Platou (1948) report two cases of hydrops, one of which survived with a hemiplegia. Van Loghem, van Bolhuis, Soeters and Veeneklaas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1956
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.31.156.92