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Fetal Red Blood Cells: A Comprehensive Review of Biological Properties and Implications for Neonatal Transfusion.

Claudio Pellegrino, Elizabeth F Stone, Caterina Giovanna Valentini, Luciana Teofili

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Review in Cells, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Decreasing packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusions in neonates through quality improvement.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026
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  7. Involving neonatal hematology and transfusion medicine in global efforts to eliminate severe retinopathy of prematurity.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Claudio PellegrinoDipartimento di Scienze di Laboratorio ed Ematologiche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1614-5576
Elizabeth F StoneDepartment of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4148-7957
Caterina Giovanna ValentiniDipartimento di Scienze di Laboratorio ed Ematologiche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7022-5366
Luciana TeofiliDipartimento di Scienze di Laboratorio ed Ematologiche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7214-1561

Funding

Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore Linea D1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transfusion guidelines worldwide include recommendations regarding the storage length, irradiation, or even donor cytomegalovirus serostatus of red blood cell (RBC) units for anemic neonates. Nevertheless, it is totally overlooked that RBCs of these patients fundamentally differ from those of older children and adults. These differences vary from size, shape, hemoglobin composition, and oxygen transport to membrane characteristics, cellular metabolism, and lifespan. Due to these profound dissimilarities, repeated transfusions of adult RBCs in neonates deeply modify the physiology of circulating RBC populations. Unsurprisingly, the number of RBC transfusions in preterm neonates, particularly if born before 28 weeks of gestation, predicts morbidity and mortality. This review provides a comprehensive description of the biological properties of fetal, cord blood, and neonatal RBCs, including the implications that neonatal RBCs, and their replacement by adult RBCs, may have for perinatal disease pathophysiology.

Indexed as

ErythrocytesErythrocyte TransfusionFetal BloodHumansInfant, Newborncord bloodfetal hemoglobinpreterm neonatesred blood cell transfusion

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PMID39594591
PMCPMC11593006

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