@article{Buzzi_Scognamillo_Girardi_Amendola_Dall’Agnola_2013, place={Quartu Sant’Elena (CA, Italy)}, title={Infantile pyknocytosis: effectiveness of erythropoietin treatment}, volume={2}, url={https://jpnim.com/index.php/jpnim/article/view/020102}, DOI={10.7363/020102}, abstractNote={<p>Infantile pyknocytosis is a rare form of neonatal haemolytic anaemia with unusual red cell morphology. Anaemia is mostly severe and red blood cells transfusion is often needed. In this report, we have described a male child aged 10 days, born at 37 weeks + 3 days, who presented neonatal jaundice and severe anaemia. After a careful peripheral blood smear examination, infantile pyknocytosis was diagnosed. A treatment with recombinant subcutaneous erythropoietin (1,000 UI/prokg/week) in conjunction with iron supplementation (6 mg/kg/day) was started. The therapy was reduced 6 weeks after the beginning and discontinued 4 weeks after the reaching of a steady state of the haemoglobin values. After 12 months of follow up, the patient showed no anaemia and pyknocytosis.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Pediatric and Neonatal Individualized Medicine (JPNIM)}, author={Buzzi, Eleonora and Scognamillo, Roberto and Girardi, Elisa and Amendola, Giovanni and Dall’Agnola, Alberto}, year={2013}, month={Mar.}, pages={81-84} }