Acute transverse myelitis associated with human parvovirus b19 infection.
We describe severe acute transverse myelitis in a previously healthy 9-year-old boy in whom primary human parvovirus B19 infection was confirmed serologically and B19 DNA was detected in his serum and cerebrospinal fluid. Besides erythema infectiosum, parvovirus B19 infection has various clinical manifestations; however, central nervous system involvement is rare. Even more unusual is parvovirus B19-associated acute transverse myelitis.
1Department of Pediatrics, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
Masashi
M
Suzuki
Yuko
Y
Yoto
Aki
A
Ishikawa
Hirofumi
H
Asakura
Hiroyuki
H
Tsutsumi
D002648:Child; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000097:blood / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019786:Gadolinium DTPA; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009188:Myelitis, Transverse / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D016732:Parvovirus B19, Human; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology
D004279:DNA, Viral; D019786:Gadolinium DTPA
acute transverse myelitis; central nervous system involvement; erythema infectiosum; human parvovirus B19