Caso hematológico: Esferocitose hereditária

• Author(s): Costa, M ; Costa, E ; Guerra, I ; Cleto, E ; Freitas, I ; Barbot, J
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/1594
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Centro Hospitalar do Porto
• Subject(s): Arregenerative anaemia; hereditary spherocytosis; histogram; Parvovirus B19
• Document Type: Article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

Aplastic crisis by Parvovirus B19 in a patient with hereditary spherocytosis can produce an acute severe and eventually life-threatening anemia. The authors present a clinical case of a 14-year old boy, enhancing the importance of clinical evaluation for a prompt diagnosis and therapeutic approach.