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Unsuccessful treatment of fetal immunologic thrombocytopenia with dexamethasone
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|June 1, 1985
Corticosteroid therapy near term for mothers with immunologic thrombocytopenia has recently been suggested as a clinically useful method to prevent neonatal thrombocytopenia. The unreliability of this approach is illustrated by the case of an infant with a low platelet count delivered after the maternal administration of dexamethasone.
Corticosteroid therapy near term for mothers with immunologic thrombocytopenia has recently been suggested as a clinically useful method to prevent neonatal thrombocytopenia. The unreliability of this approach is illustrated by the case of an infant with a low platelet count delivered after the maternal administration of dexamethasone.