Prospective epidemiologic study of the outcome and cost‐effectiveness of antenatal screening to detect neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia due to anti‐HPA‐1a

Abstract

Our data suggest that severe HPA-1a NAIT is underdiagnosed in the absence of routine antenatal screening. Serious bleeding complications and ICH, however, occur less frequently in first cases of NAIT than suspected from the literature, and the costs of screening and possible intervention must be balanced against the procedural risks.