FNAIT Awareness Week 25 – 31 March 2024
This is the week our support group members from all over the world share their stories – how Fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia has affected their lives and their families.
Baby Lily Harrison suffered severe brain damage due to intra-cranial haemorrhages caused by fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia #FNAIT – SCREENING for this devastating disease should be standard and routine!!!!
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After their mum had several late term loses which, after investigation, were found to be due to FNAIT, Kiera Whitely and her sister from British Columbia, Canada, found they too had the rare platelet type HPA-1b1b. It’s so important for sisters to get their platelets typed (called platelet genotyping) if there is a maternal history of FNAIT or repeated pregnancy loss. Read Kiera’s story here
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