title: Parvovirus B19 in an immunocompetent adult patient with acute liver failure: an underdiagnosed cause of acute non-A-E viral hepatitis.
abstract: There are occasional pediatric reports of parvovirus B19-associated transient acute hepatitis and hepatic failure. A case of a 34-year-old immunocompetent woman who developed severe and prolonged but self-limited acute hepatitis and myelosuppression following acute parvovirus B19 infection is reported. Parvovirus B19 may be the causative agent in some adult cases of acute non-A-E viral hepatitis and acute liver failure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
authors.forename: J Kee
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Susan P L
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Tha
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Coupland
authors.forename: Bakul I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Dalal
authors.forename: William R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Bowie
authors.forename: Gayatri M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Sreenivasan
authors.forename: Mel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krajden
authors.forename: Eric M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Yoshida
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D017114:Liver Failure, Acute / Q000150:complications*; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000150:complications*; D016732:Parvovirus B19, Human