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Treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia by plasmapheresis
1University Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria, Australia.
Intensive Care Medicine
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A term baby developed severe hyperbilirubinaemia in association with group-B streptococcal sepsis. Haemodynamic instability deterred us from performing exchange transfusion, and so plasmapheresis was used to lower the bilirubin level. The procedure was very effective and well tolerated.