NEONATAL ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM

Authors
MINOWA H NISHIKUBO T UCHIDA Y NOGAMI K YAMASHITA C KAMITSUJI H TAKAHASHI Y YOSHIOKA A
Citation
H. Minowa et al., NEONATAL ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM, Acta Paediatrica Japonica Overseas Edition, 40(1), 1998, pp. 88-90
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics
Journal title
Acta Paediatrica Japonica Overseas Edition → ACNP
ISSN journal
03745600
Volume
40
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
88 - 90
Database
ISI
SICI code
0374-5600(1998)40:1<88:>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
A report is presented of a patient with neonatal erythema infectiosum who developed petechiae, transient thrombocytopenia and transient card iac failure due to transplacental transmission of human parvovirus B19 (HPV B19) infection. It is suggested that the thrombocytopenia was ca used by platelet-associated IgG produced by the patient, and that the cardiac failure may have been caused by direct entry of HPV Big into t he cardiac tissue.