A Method to Evaluate Fetal Erythropoiesis from Postnatal Survival of Fetal RBCs
Journal Title: The AAPS Journal - Year 2015, Vol 17, Issue 5
Abstract
Fetal RBCs are produced during a period of very rapid growth and stimulated erythropoiesis under hypoxic intrauterine conditions. Fetal RBC life span varies with gestational age (GA) and is shorter than that in healthy adults. Due to the special kinetic properties of life span-based survival of human RBCs, a mathematical model-based kinetic analysis of the survival of fetal RBCs shortly after birth provides a unique opportunity to “look backward in time” to evaluate fetal erythropoiesis. This work introduces a novel method that utilizes postnatal in vivo RBC survival data collected within 2 days after birth to study both nonsteady-state (non-SS) in utero RBC production and changing fetal RBC life span over time. The effect of changes in erythropoiesis rate and RBC life span and the effect of multiple postnatal phlebotomies on the RBC survival curves were investigated using model-based simulations. This mathematical model, which considers both changes in the rate of erythropoiesis and RBC life span and which accurately accounts for the confounding effect of multiple phlebotomies, was applied to survival curves for biotin-labeled RBCs from ten anemic very low birth weight preterm infants. The estimated mean fetal RBC production rate scaled by body weight was 1.07 × 107 RBCs/day g, and the mean RBC life span at birth was 52.1 days; these values are consistent with reported values. The in utero RBC life span increased at a rate of 0.51 days per day of gestation. We conclude that the proposed mathematical model and its implementation provide a flexible framework to study in utero non-SS fetal erythropoiesis in newborn infants.
Authors and Affiliations
Denison J. Kuruvilla, John A. Widness, Demet Nalbant, Robert L. Schmidt, Donald M. Mock, Peter Veng-Pedersen
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