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Article: IgG treatment in pregnancy reduces severity of rare liver condition in newborns.
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- December 4, 2004
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2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Treatment with high-dose immunoglobulin G (IgG) during pregnancy lessens the severity of hemochromatosis (NH), a rare, devastating, gestational disease with abnormal iron accumulation in the liver and severe liver injury that almost always results in fetal death or acute liver failure in newborns.
In a paper in the November 6, 2004, issue of The Lancet, researchers Peter F. Whitington, MD, and Judith U. Hibbard, MD, described the effectiveness of treating mothers with IgG in reducing liver injury in babies with recurrent NH.
Whitington, a noted authority on liver disease, is professor of pediatrics at ...