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Clinical Cytology - Posters<br />

APLASTIC CRISIS INDUCED BY HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19 AS AN INITIAL<br />

PRESENTATION OF HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS<br />

Čaržavec D 1 , Gaćina P 1 , Vasilj A 2 , Kojić Katović S 2 , Stančić V 1<br />

1Department of Hematology, University Clinic of Internal Medicine, Sestre Milosrdnice<br />

University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.<br />

2Department of Cytology, University Clinic of Internal Medicine, Sestre Milosrdnice University<br />

Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia<br />

The association between aplastic crisis and human parvovirus (HPV) B19 infection is<br />

described in patients with hereditary spherocytosis (HS). Most cases of aplastic crisis in<br />

patients with HS induced by HPV B19 have been reported in children and adolescents. In<br />

this paper , we describe an aplastic crisis induced by HPV B19 in an 34 year old female as<br />

an initial presentation of HS. Although other viral illnesses cause some decompensation<br />

in HS, the anaemia is very rarely as profound as that seen in acute HPV B19 infections.<br />

dubravka.carzavec@zg.t-com.hr<br />

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4 th <strong>Croatian</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> of Clinical Cytology / 1 st <strong>Croatian</strong> Symposium of Analytical Cytology / 2 nd <strong>Croatian</strong> Symposium of Cytotechnology

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