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2. • 16 day old child was admitted to NICU on
04/03/17 with
-h/o Yellowish discoloration of skin from D1 of life.
-h/o Vomiting 2-3 episodes from 1 day.
• Has shown to local doctor for yellowish
discoloration on D3 and D8 and no treatment was
advised.
• No h/o convulsions,high pitched cry or arching.
• Vomiting from last 1 day-contains milk and
immediately after feeding.
• No h/o bilious vomiting, abdominal distension ,
constipation , poor feeding ,dark colored urine ,
clay colored stools.
3. Antenatal History:G2P1L1,Spontaneosuly concieved.
ML-4 yrs,NCM.
MBG-O positive.
Had regular ANC.Antenatal USG –Normal.
No maternal h/o GDM,PE.
Not on medication except nutritional supplements.
Maternal h/o receiving 2 pint of BT on 5th and 6th month
of gestation.(Hb6gm%)
Birth History: Delivered via LSCS,Indcn-Non progression of
labour.
Baby Cried immediately after birth.
Birth weight-3.25kg.
Breast fed within a hour.
Family history:No h/o blood transfusions,jaundice in
family.
Elder sibling 2 yrs old female apparently healthy
4. On examination:
-PR-142/min N volume,regular. -Normothermic
-RR-42/min.
-SpO2-94% in room air
-CRT:2 sec.
Anthropometry:Wt-3.2kg,Length-49cm,HC-
35.5cm.
Head to toe examination:Icterus Zone- 4
Pallor +.
No dysmorphic features.
10. • G -6-PD:Present,No deficiency.
• Vitamin B12,Folic acid-WNL.
• Serum LDH-863 IU/L (N 80-285IU/L).
• Hb Electrophoresis:HbF-74%,HbA-27%.
Normal for age.
• CT Brain-No e/o IC bleed.
11. • 16D old T/AGA Mch with severe anemia and
jaundice.
• No features HSM,CCF,dysmphorphology.
• Maternal h/o BT in 2nd trimester.
• Investigation-
- Severe anemia with indirect hyperbilirubinemia.
- Increased reticulocyte count
- Negative coombs test
- Smear examination-Dimorphic anemia
- Eleveated LDH
13. Course in Hospital:
• Feeds started on admission.
• Received PRBC transfusion 20ml/kg.
• Discharge: Hb-10.1gm%
• On follow up baby thriving well, planned for
repeat CBC at 3 months and repeat
electrophoresis at 6 months.
15. Definition:
• Defined as Hb>2 SD, below mean for postnatal
age.
• Anemia in 1st week is defined as Hb<14gm/dl.
• Any significant fall in Hb ,even if within normal
range.Eg:Birth-18.5gm% and 1st week-14gm%.
• Failure of Hb to raise during first few hours of life
–may first clue for hemolysis or hemmorage.
16. Fetal Erythropoesis:
• Erythropesis in fetus sequentially in different
sites-
-Yolk sac: maximal btw 2-10 wks
-Liver : By 6-8 wks liver is primary erytropoetic
organ
-Bone marrow:Begins at 18th week & at 30th
week is major EP organ
• Fetal EP is independent from mother.
• EPO (produced in liver)plays role in hepatic
and BM phase.
17. Fetal Erythrocyte:
• Fetal RBC-Higher O2 affinity.(no interaction 2,3 –DPG)
• Types of Hb:
- Embryonic Hb: Gower-1: ζ2 ε2
Gower-2: α2 ε2
Portland: ζ2 γ2
-Fetal Hb: Hb F: α2γ2
-Adult Hb: Hb A : α2 β2
Hb A1: α2 δ2
• Hb,HCT,and RBC count increase throuh fetal life.
• Large RBCs with increased Hb in early fetal life,size and
content decrease through gestation.
• MCV-180fl in embryo
-130fl mid gestation.
-110fl at term .
18. Neonatal Erythrocyte:
• Life span of the red blood cell (RBC) at birth is lower
than that in adult 60-70 days (preterm 35-50 days).
• Larger MCV and lower MCHC, and are more
susceptible to oxidant-induced injury mainly due to a
deficiency in phosphofructokinase activity.
• High frequency of dysmorphology of RBC in term
neonates14% are spherocytes and poikilocytes
compared to 3% in adults, more in preterm neonates.
• Rate of haemoglobin synthesis and RBC production
decreases sharply during the first few days after
delivery due to decrease in EPO in the plasma
19. Normal Values in Newborn period:
Hb and Hematocrit:
• Term infant ranges from 15.7-17.9gm/dl.
• Rises shortly(15%) after birth-absolute and
relative.
• Normal Hct:51-56% rises during few hours and
reaches original value by 1 week
20. Reticulocyte count:
Term Newborn
-At birth-3-7%
-4th day-1-3%
-7th day < 1%
• PT infants reticulocyte count is higher 6-10%
remains higher for longer period.
Nucleated RBC:
• Term infants has 0-24
NRBC/100leukocytes.(higher in PT)
• Disappear 3-4 days in Term and 7-10days in PT
21. RBC count:
4.6-5.2 million/cumm at birth,rises and returns
to normal value by 1 week
RBC indices:
MCV:105-125fl,<95fl-microcytes
MCH:35-38pg,<34pg-hypochromia
22. Etiology:
• Anemia in neonatal period is due to three
distinct causes:
1. Hemorrhage: Acute/chronic,
prenatal/postnatal
2. Hemolysis: Immune/nonimmune
3. Failure of red cell production.
23. Hemmorage:
• Prenatal Blood Loss-
-Placental –placenta previa,abruptio,vasa previa
-fetomaternal blood loss
-Retroplacental Bleed
-Twin-to-Twin Transfusion
• Postnatal Blood Loss
-skipped ligature of cord
-traumatic delivery leading to subgalel or
intrabdominal bleed.
-Iatrogenic Anemia(sampling)
24.
25. Hemolysis:
Anemia with reticulocytosis,Unconjugated
hyperbilirubinemia and hemoglobinuria without any
evidence of Hemorrhage.
1. Immune Mediated
-Rh hemolytic disease
-ABO incompatibilty.
2. Non Immune mediated
-Red cell membrane defects :Hereditary
spherocytosis, elliptocytosis,stomatocytosis
-Hemoglobinopathies:Alpha thalassemia , Gamma
thalassemia
-RBC enzyme abnormalities:G6PD deficiency , pyruvate
kinase deficiency, 5’ nucleotidase deficiency and glucose
phosphate isomerase deficiency.
-Infection:TORCH,Malaria
26. Failure of Red Cell Production
1. Congenital
-Pure red cell aplasia (Diamond-Blackfan
anemia),
-Aase syndrome and
-Fanconi’s anemia
2. Anemia of premaurity
27. Diagnostic Approach:
• History and physical examination can give a lead to the cause
of anemia in a newborn.
• Family history of anemia, cholelithiasis, unexplained jaundice
and splenomegaly - Hereditary hemolytic anemia.
• Obstetric history of difficult labor,instrumentation, bleeding or
placental abnormalities - Hemorrhagic anemia.
• The age at which anemia manifest also is of diagnostic
importance.
-Significant anemia at birth is due to blood loss or
alloimmunization.
- After 24 hours, internal hemorrhage and other causes of
hemolysis manifest.
-Anemia of prematurity, hypoplastic anemia and abnormalities
of synthesis of hemoglobin chain generally appear several
weeks after birth.
28. • Coombs test, reticulocyte count, mean
corpuscular volume, MCH and blood smear
are the key investigative tools for diagnosing
the cause of anemia in newborn.
29. Management:
Transfusion:
• Hypovolemic shock d/t acute blood loss- 10-20
ml/kg of whole blood, cross matched with
mother transfused immediately.
• Remaining situations, the decision to transfuse
takes into consideration a combination of
clinical signs and laboratory parameters.
• Transfusion products for neonatal transfusions
should be leukocyte-depleted, irradiated for
infants weighing <1200 g and from selected
donors to limit donor exposure.
30. Transfusion Guidelines:
Roseff SD, Luban NL, Manno CS. Guidelines for assessing appropriateness of
pediatric transfusion. Transfusion 2002;42:1398e412
34. Transfusion in anemia of prematurity:
Whyte RK, Jefferies AL, Canadian Paediatric Society, Fetus and Newborn
Committee. Red blood cell transfusion in newborn infants. Paediatr Child
Health 2014;19:213e22.
35. Erythropoietin:
• Transitory reduction in EPO production in the first
few months after birth.
• Early administration of EPO reduces the use of RBC
transfusions, the volume transfused, number of
donor- limited clinical importance and significant
increase in ROP,reduce or increase any important
adverse outcomes including mortality,
intraventricular hemorrhage and NEC.
• Late EPO does not significantly reduce or increase
any clinically important adverse outcomes except for
a trend in increased risk for ROP
Aher SM, Ohlsson A. Late erythropoietin for preventing red blood cell transfusion
in preterm and/or low birth weight infants. Cochrane Database Syst
Rev 2014;(4):CD004868
36. Prevention:
• Delivery room practices:delayed cord clumping,milking or
striping of the umbilical cord, and drawing all NICU baseline
laboratory blood tests from fetal blood in the placenta.
• Measures to reduce blood loss: limiting phlebotomy losses for
blood testing; returning the dead space volume after sampling
an arterial catheter; microtechnique laboratory procedures;
and the development of non-invasive monitoring
• Adopting transfusion guidelines and locally adapted
transfusion criteria.
• EPO Early administration might be considered in selected
circumstances, but should not be routinely recommended.
• Iron supplementation:2010 AAP recommends iron for
breastfed term infants at 4month.
-Preterm start supplementation at 4-6wks.
• Vitamin E(5-25IU)daily upto 40 wks.
37. References:
• Colombatti et al. Anemia and transfusion in the
neonate/ Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 21
(2016) 2e9.
• Neha rastogi et el,Anemia in Newborn.In:Practical
Pediatric Hematology 2nd ed.2006 ;pp 35-40.
• E.Henry et al.Reference intervals in Neonatal
Hematology/Clinics in Perinatology 42(2015) 483-487.
• Matthews et al.Erythrocyte disorders in
Infancy.In:Avery’s Diseases of Newborn 7th ed;p1080-
88.
• Asimenia et al.Anemia.In:Cloherty’s Manual of
Neonatal Care 8th ed;p537-45