A man-made disease: Fetal neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia due to incompatibility between oocyte donor and gestational mother

Assaf Arie Barg*, Aviya Dvir Ifrah, Tzipi Strauss, Michal J. Simchen, Raoul Orvieto, Nurit Rosenberg, Gili Kenet

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Abstract

The incompatibility causing fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) results from a fetus inheriting a paternal human platelet antigen (HPA), which is different from the maternal HPA. We present a unique case of FNAIT in a pregnancy involving an oocyte recipient mother with Turner syndrome. This is the first report of FNAIT in which the suggested mechanism involves antibodies produced by a gestational mother against the incompatible HPA of the oocyte donor.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere26447
JournalPediatric Blood and Cancer
Volume64
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2017

Keywords

  • HPA
  • Turner syndrome
  • neonatal thrombocytopenia
  • oocyte donor
  • surrogate pregnancy

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