Association of hypospadias and cardiac defect in a Parvovirus B19-infected stillborn: A causality relation?

Journal of Infection

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Konstantinidou, A E ^a   Syridou, G ^b   Spanakis, N ^a   Tsakris, A ^a   Agrogiannis, G ^a   Patsouris, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Lito Maternity Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiac defect; Fetal intrauterine infection; Growth restriction; Hydrops; Micropenis; Parvovirus B19; Perineoscrotal hypospadias; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOSPADIAS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MALE; MICROPENIS; NEWBORN HEMOLYTIC DISEASE; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SKIN EDEMA; STILLBIRTH; THROMBOPHILIA; VIRUS GENOME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; DNA, VIRAL; EDEMA; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GREECE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN; PENIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 33845565042     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2006.03.030     Document Type: Article

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