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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2013 Feb 6;161(1):3–14. doi: 10.1111/bjh.12235

Table III.

Stratification of NAIT cases according to risk of intracranial haemorrhage *.

Stratum Definition Risk
1 History of previous fetus or newborn with thrombocytopenia or intracranial haemorrhage of unknown aetiology;
 no HPA antibody detected.
Unknown
2 History of previous fetus or newborn with serologically confirmed fetal or neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
 having only thrombocytopenia and no evidence of an intracranial haemorrhage.
Standard
3 History of serologically confirmed fetal or neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia and previous fetus or newborn
 with intracranial haemorrhage at 28 weeks of gestation or more (includes peripartum and neonatal intracranial
 haemorrhage).
High
4 History of serologically confirmed fetal or neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia and previous fetus with
 intracranial haemorrhage at less than 28 weeks.
Very High
*

Adapted from Pacheco et al, 2011.