Alloimmune Disorders of Pregnancy Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Pathophysiology of the alloimmune cytopenias
- 2 Blood group antibodies in haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
- 3 Basis and practice of screening for haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
- 4 Epidemiology and screening for alloimmune thrombocytopenia
- 5 Principles of antibody-mediated immune suppression and the prevention of maternal RhD alloimmunization
- 6 The clinical application of anti-D prophylaxis
- 7 Fetal genotyping
- 8 Laboratory assays to determine the severity of haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
- 9 Assessing the severity of haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn: clinical aspects
- 10 Antenatal therapy for haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
- 11 Neonatal therapy for haemolytic disease of the newborn
- 12 The diagnosis of alloimmune thrombocytopenia
- 13 The immunological diagnosis of alloimmune neutropenia
- 14 Fetal and neonatal treatment of alloimmune thrombocytopenia
- Index
Foreword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Pathophysiology of the alloimmune cytopenias
- 2 Blood group antibodies in haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
- 3 Basis and practice of screening for haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
- 4 Epidemiology and screening for alloimmune thrombocytopenia
- 5 Principles of antibody-mediated immune suppression and the prevention of maternal RhD alloimmunization
- 6 The clinical application of anti-D prophylaxis
- 7 Fetal genotyping
- 8 Laboratory assays to determine the severity of haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
- 9 Assessing the severity of haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn: clinical aspects
- 10 Antenatal therapy for haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn
- 11 Neonatal therapy for haemolytic disease of the newborn
- 12 The diagnosis of alloimmune thrombocytopenia
- 13 The immunological diagnosis of alloimmune neutropenia
- 14 Fetal and neonatal treatment of alloimmune thrombocytopenia
- Index
Summary
This book is a very good idea. It brings together all the different aspects of the alloimmune cytopenias that are needed to understand them. The two most important are the red cell and the platelet cytopenias and they have features in common as well as characteristics that sharply differentiate them. For each condition, consideration is given to the genetics, the pathophysiology, the evidence for the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of screening and prevention, and to the management of the affected fetus and neonate. To have authoritative chapters on all these topics within the covers of one book is extremely helpful both for those who are new to these clinical problems and for those who, like the author of this foreword, have been grappling with them for over 20 years. The editors and their multidisciplinary team are to be congratulated and thanked for producing this valuable synthesis.
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- Alloimmune Disorders of PregnancyAnaemia, Thrombocytopenia and Neutropenia in the Fetus and Newborn, pp. xix - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001