Improvement of maternal and fetal outcomes in women with sickle cell disease treated with early prophylactic erythrocytapheresis.

Autor: Vianello, Alice, Vencato, Elisa, Cantini, Maurizio, Zanconato, Giovanni, Manfrin, Erminia, Zamo, Alberto, Zorzi, Francesco, Mazzi, Filippo, Martinelli, Nicola, Cavaliere, Elena, Monari, Francesca, Venturelli, Donatella, Ferrara, Francesca, Olivieri, Oliviero, De Franceschi, Lucia
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Zdroj: Transfusion; Sep2018, Vol. 58 Issue 9, p2192-2201, 10p, 1 Color Photograph, 4 Charts, 1 Graph
Abstrakt: Background: The desire for pregnancy in sickle cell disease (SCD) women has become a true challenge for hematologists, requiring a multidisciplinary approach. Erythrocytapheresis (ECP) is an important therapeutic tool in SCD, but only limited data on starting time and the effects of ECP during pregnancy are available.Study Design and Methods: This is a double-center retrospective cross-sectional study on a total of 46 single pregnancies in SCD women from January 2008 to June 2017. ECP was started at 10.7 ± 5.2 weeks of gestation, and prophylactic enoxaparin (4,000 U daily) was introduced due to the reported high prevalence of thromboembolic events in pregnant SCD women.Results: The alloimmunization ratio was 2.1 per 1,000 and the alloimmunization rate was 5.6%. In early ECP-treated SCD women, no severe vaso-occlusive crisis, sepsis or severe infection, or preeclampsia or eclampsia were observed. We found normal umbilical arterial impedance during pregnancy, suggesting an optimal uteroplacental function in early ECP-treated SCD women. This was also supported by the improvement in newborn birthweights compared to previous studies. In our cohort, three SCD women were started later on ECP (20-25 weeks), and gestation ended with late fetal loss. Placenta pathology documented SCD-related damage and erythroblasts in placental vessels, indicating fetal hypoxia.Conclusions: Collectively, our data generate a rationale to support a larger clinical trial of early ECP program in SCD pregnancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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