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Successive pregnancies complicated by idiopathic sideroblastic anemia
J R Barton1, D C Shaver, B M Sibai
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tennessee, Memphis.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
Sideroblastic anemias are a diverse group of hypoproliferative anemias characterized by defective iron use within erythropoietic cells and a defect in heme biosynthesis. This report describes the first case of successive pregnancies in a patient with idiopathic sideroblastic anemia. Periodic transfusions with washed erythrocytes and oral pyridoxine resulted in normal maternal and perinatal outcome.