Artigo
ACUTE LIVER FAILURE ASSOCIATED WITH RUBELLA VIRUS in A CHILD
Fecha
2010-06-01Registro en:
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, v. 29, n. 6, p. 573-574, 2010.
0891-3668
10.1097/INF.0b013e3181d3ce4c
WOS:000278372300024
Autor
Figueiredo, Cristina Adelaide [UNIFESP]
Barbagallo Cordovani, Nancy Therezinha
Castrignano, Silvana Beres
Ferreira Alves, Venancio Avancini
Kanamura, Cristina Takami
Oliveira, Maria Isabel de
Campos Fernandes, Flora Maria de
Klautau, Giselle Burlamaqui [UNIFESP]
Durigon, Edison Luiz
Institución
Resumen
Acute liver failure is a syndrome with a wide range of etiologic possibilities in children, but in up to 50% of the cases in the literature no diagnosis is established. This case report adds rubella virus to the list of possible causes of acute liver failure. This association was made by serologic, cell culture, molecular, histopathologic, and immunohistochemical methods.