Maternal alloimmunization against the rare platelet‐specific antigen HPA‐9b (Maxa) is an important cause of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
Maternal alloimmunization against the rare platelet‐specific antigen HPA‐9b (Maxa) is an important cause of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
J. Peterson,S. M. Balthazor,2 Authors,R. Aster
2005 · DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.00561.x
Transfusion · 56 Citations
TLDR
This study investigated whether this can be explained in part by maternal immunization against the “rare” alloantigen HPA‐9b (Maxa), implicated previously only in a single NATP case.