Prasanna K Kapavarapu, Amal Paul, A V Lalitha, Arun S Shet
Department of Pediatrics, St. John’s Medical College and Hospital, St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, India.
Indian journal of pediatrics 2012 DecHereditary Elliptocytosis is a heterogeneous group of disorder with regard to clinical presentation, protein defects and mode of inheritance. Parvoviral induced transient aplastic crisis in the form of sudden onset anemia is said to be a rare manifestation of this hereditary hemolytic anemia. The authors describe a case of parvoviral induced transient aplastic crisis in a patient with hereditary elliptocytosis and review the pathogenic mechanisms of parvoviral hemolytic disease.
Prasanna K Kapavarapu, Amal Paul, A V Lalitha, Arun S Shet. Transient aplastic crisis in hereditary elliptocytosis. Indian journal of pediatrics. 2012 Dec;79(12):1666-8
PMID: 22294270
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