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. 2014 Sep;63(5):536-8.
doi: 10.7727/wimj.2013.176. Epub 2014 Jun 10.

Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura Associated with Hepatitis A Infection in a Five-year Old Boy: A Case Report

N Urganci  1 , O Kilicaslan  2 , D Kalyoncu  3 , S Yilmaz  4
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Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura Associated with Hepatitis A Infection in a Five-year Old Boy: A Case Report

N Urganci et al. West Indian Med J. 2014 Sep.

Abstract
in English, Spanish

Acute hepatitis A infection is usually a self-limiting disease and mostly asymptomatic in children younger than six years old. Extrahepatic autoimmune manifestations such as immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) have been reported rarely in children with acute hepatitis A infection. We report herein a paediatric case with ITP which is due to hepatitis A virus infection.

La infección aguda por el virus de la hepatitis A es generalmente una enfermedad autolimitante y mayormente asintomática en niños menores de seis años de edad. Las manifestaciones autoinmunes extra-hepáticas, tales como la púrpura trombocitopénica inmune (PTI), raramente han sido reportadas en niños con infección aguda de hepatitis A. Reportamos aquí un caso pediátrico de PTI a causa de la infección del virus de la hepatitis A.

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