neonatal thrombocytopenia

No lab test can reliably predict if neonatal thrombocytopenia will occur.

Newborn infants may have low platelet counts, a condition called neonatal thrombocytopenia.

The risk of neonatal thrombocytopenia is increased with:

Neonatal thrombocytopenia is rare among healthy infants, but occurs often in newborns admitted to intensive care units.

It may also cause prematurity, low birth weight, and neonatal thrombocytopenia, anaemia and hepatitis.