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CASE REPORT
Intravenous iron administration together with parenteral nutrition to very preterm Jehovah's Witness twins
  1. Porntiva Poorisrisak1,
  2. Allan Mikael Schroeder2,
  3. Gorm Greisen3,
  4. Gitte Zachariassen4
  1. 1Department of Pediatrics, Naestved Hospital, Naestved, Denmark
  2. 2 The Capital Region, Medicine Information Centre, Copenhagen NV, Denmark
  3. 3Neonatal Department, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  4. 4Department of Pediatrics, Hans Christian Andersen Children's Hospital, Odense, Denmark
  1. Correspondence to Dr Gitte Zachariassen, Gitte.Zachariassen{at}rsyd.dk

Summary

Preterm twin sisters (monozygotic) were born at gestational age 27 weeks and 5 days with birth weights of 935 and 735 g. They were admitted to our neonatal intensive care unit for a period of 1 month. Their parents were Jehovah’s Witnesses and refused blood transfusion for their preterm daughters. Subcutaneous erythropoietin and intravenous iron were given as a prophylactic to avoid anaemia.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-202167

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