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Query: UMLS:C0002871 (anemia)
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A woman pregnant with her second child was given sulfisoxazole (Gantrisin) during her eighth month of pregnancy for a urinary tract infection. Her 34-week-old male infant was stillborn with hydrops fetalis and severe anemia. The mother was found to be glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH) deficient. Ingestion of the drug which is known to produce hemolysis in G-6-PDH-deficient people may have compromised the male infant by creating an abundance of bilirubin via massive hemolysis and also retarding its elimnation by competing with bilirubin for albumin-binding sites. This case identifies a newly recognized danger in the use of sulfonzmides in the third trimester of pregnancy.
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PMID:Hydrops fetalis and stillbirth in a male glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient fetus possibly due to maternal ingestion of sulfisoxazole; a case report. 499 90