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A Case of Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia due to Anti-HLA A2
Sung Young Kim, Eun Ryoung Kim, Young Jin Kim, Myoung Hee Park, Eun Young Song, Kyou Sup Han
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2000;43(6):861-865.   Published online June 15, 2000
Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia(NAIT) is a rare disease caused by maternal alloimmunization against fetal platelet surface antigen, which is mainly platelet specific alloantigen or human leukocyte antigen(HLA). During routine hemotology, we accidentally discovered thrombocytopenia in a female fullterm newborn admitted due to jaundice. We excluded NAIT due to human platelet alloantigen(HPA), because the HPA of the mother and baby were the...