BETA THALASSEMIA IN PREGNANCY UPDATES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ANAEMIA AND BIRTH (CASE REPORT)
Abstract:
During the visits and assessments made by the pregnant woman during the antenatal
period, there are many occasions when changes in complete blood count can be discovered in the
sense of anemia.(1) Often, pregnant women benefit from iron treatment without being investigated
haematologically and are often refractory to treatment. That is why we suggest a three-stage full
screening by presenting the next case. We mention that this pathology meets all criteria for
screening: increased frequency of healthy carriers (haematological defects), low cost screening
tests with high specificity, low false positive rate (complete blood count, sideremia, ferritin), and on
long term, the complications of the underlying haematological disease (which have an impact on the
costs of hospitalization) can be avoided and, last but not least, iatrogenicity avoidance
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