Parvovirus B19 in an immunocompetent adult patient with acute liver failure: an underdiagnosed cause of acute non-A-E viral hepatitis.
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.
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J Kee
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Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
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Susan P L
SP
Coupland
Robert
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Dalal
Bakul I
BI
Bowie
William R
WR
Sreenivasan
Gayatri M
GM
Krajden
Mel
M
Yoshida
Eric M
EM
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