A 31-year-old pregnant woman at 20 weeks' gestation was sent to our hospital for fever, anemia, and arthralgias. As she was known to be a double heterozygote for beta-thalassemia and hemoglobin S, a diagnosis of hemolytic anemia caused by sickled red cells vasocclusive crises was made. The patient was submitted to partial exchange transfusion (PET) with a complete recovery. A second PET was performed at 36 weeks' gestation, and elective cesarean section was performed at 37 weeks, with the birth of a normal female neonate.
Sickle cell thalassemia in pregnancy : a case report / G. Carpani, P. Bozzetti, I. Cetin, A. Tel, G.A. Moroni. - In: JOURNAL OF MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE. - ISSN 1057-0802. - 5:1(1996), pp. 28-30. [10.1002/(SICI)1520-6661(199601/02)5:1<28::AID-MFM6>3.0.CO;2-V]
Sickle cell thalassemia in pregnancy : a case report
I. Cetin;
1996
Abstract
A 31-year-old pregnant woman at 20 weeks' gestation was sent to our hospital for fever, anemia, and arthralgias. As she was known to be a double heterozygote for beta-thalassemia and hemoglobin S, a diagnosis of hemolytic anemia caused by sickled red cells vasocclusive crises was made. The patient was submitted to partial exchange transfusion (PET) with a complete recovery. A second PET was performed at 36 weeks' gestation, and elective cesarean section was performed at 37 weeks, with the birth of a normal female neonate.
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