Idiopathic Neonatal Hepatitis Associated With a Fatal Coagulopathy

Fatal marrow aplasia associated with non-A non-B hepatitis.

swellings have not been reported. The condition is a multisystem disease with a mortality rate of up to 63%, death being due to either respiratory failure or the development of a malignant lymphoma.' An immunological basis for the disease has been suggested because of extensive immunological dysfunction found in a recent study of six patients.3 The aetiology is unknown but, interestingly, altho...

Immune Thrombocytopenia Associated with Hepatitis A Infection in Children

Hepatitis A infection is usually a self–limited disease during childhood. Autoimmune manifestations are rarely reported among patients with HA infection. We describe a previously healthy 6-yr-old male with acute hepatitis A who developed immune thrombocytopenia.

Extralobar lung sequestration associated with fatal neonatal respiratory distress.

Coxsackie group B fatal neonatal myocarditis associated with cardiomegaly.

Most fatal cases of Coxsackie group B neonatal myocarditis have been associated with nursery epidemics. Occasional sporadic cases have been reported, mainly from the U.S.A., and a further case with gross cardiomegaly is described.

fatal intravascular consumption coagulopathy in typhoid fever

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