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A condition in newborns caused by immunity of the mother to PLATELET ALLOANTIGENS on the fetal platelets. The PLATELETS, coated with maternal ANTIBODIES, are destroyed and removed by the fetal MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM. Affected infants may have INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES.
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- Neonatal Thrombocytopenia
- Thrombocytopenia, Neonatal Alloimmune
- Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia, Neonatal
- Alloimmune Thrombocytopenias, Neonatal
- Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenias
- Neonatal Thrombocytopenias
- Thrombocytopenia, Neonatal
- Thrombocytopenias, Neonatal
- Thrombocytopenias, Neonatal Alloimmune
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2008
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- Thrombocytopenia (1980-2007)
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- National Library of Medicine. Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054098. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054098
- Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_alloimmune_thrombocytopenia
- Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2622318