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Case Report

Parvovirus B19 Infection Mimicking Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Successfully Treated with Intravenous Immune Globulin

by
Sare Gülfem Özlü
1,*,
Başak Alan
2,
Aysegül Şahiner
3,
Büşra Bulut
4,
Gülsüm İclal Bayhan
5 and
Sonay İncesoy Özdemir
6
1
Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University, Yenimahalle Training and Research Hospital, Yeni Batı Mah., 2026. Caddesi, 2367 Sokak No:4, Batıkent, 06370 Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey
2
Department of General Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University, Kızılırmak Mahallesi, 1436.Sokak, Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Caddesi, Başak Apartmanı, No:2/26, Çukurambar, Ankara, Turkey
3
Department of General Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University, Yenimahalle Training and Research Hospital, İnönü Mahallesi, 1794. Sokak, Özmen Park Sitesi, No:8 B Blok, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey
4
Department of General Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University, Yenibatı Mahallesi, 2413. Sokak, No:6 Kat:3 Batıkent, Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey
5
Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University, Mahmut Esat Bozkurt Caddesi, No: 12/3 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey
6
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University, Söğütbeli Caddesi, Alya Sitesi, No: 4/10, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
GERMS 2020, 10(3), 244-248; https://doi.org/10.18683/germs.2020.1211
Submission received: 25 March 2020 / Revised: 3 May 2020 / Accepted: 5 June 2020 / Published: 1 September 2020
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Abstract

Introduction: Parvovirus B19 infection generally presents as a transient viral illness in children but rarely shows systemic lupus erythematosus-like symptoms. Case report: Here we present a 7-year-old girl with parvovirus B19 infection who had prolonged fever, rash, pancytopenia and hypocomplementemia making it difficult do differentiate from the first episode of systemic lupus erythematosus. Because she had severe progressive pancytopenia she was administered intravenous immune globulin treatment and her clinical course was dramatically improved. Discussion: Parvovirus B19 infection can mimic systemic lupus erythematosus and it may be difficult to differentiate a recent parvovirus B19 infection and the first presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus. Absence of discoid lesions, alopecia, Raynaud phenomenon and autoimmune hemolytic anemia may help to distinguish parvovirus B19 infection from systemic lupus erythematosus. Conclusions: Parvovirus B19 infection may cause a severe clinical picture resembling systemic lupus erythematosus even in otherwise healthy children. Intravenous immune globulin treatment might be considered in cases resistant to supportive management.
Keywords: parvovirus B19; systemic lupus erythematosus; children parvovirus B19; systemic lupus erythematosus; children

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Özlü, S.G.; Alan, B.; Şahiner, A.; Bulut, B.; Bayhan, G.I.; Özdemir, S.I. Parvovirus B19 Infection Mimicking Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Successfully Treated with Intravenous Immune Globulin. GERMS 2020, 10, 244-248. https://doi.org/10.18683/germs.2020.1211

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Özlü SG, Alan B, Şahiner A, Bulut B, Bayhan GI, Özdemir SI. Parvovirus B19 Infection Mimicking Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Successfully Treated with Intravenous Immune Globulin. GERMS. 2020; 10(3):244-248. https://doi.org/10.18683/germs.2020.1211

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Özlü, Sare Gülfem, Başak Alan, Aysegül Şahiner, Büşra Bulut, Gülsüm İclal Bayhan, and Sonay İncesoy Özdemir. 2020. "Parvovirus B19 Infection Mimicking Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Successfully Treated with Intravenous Immune Globulin" GERMS 10, no. 3: 244-248. https://doi.org/10.18683/germs.2020.1211

APA Style

Özlü, S. G., Alan, B., Şahiner, A., Bulut, B., Bayhan, G. I., & Özdemir, S. I. (2020). Parvovirus B19 Infection Mimicking Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Successfully Treated with Intravenous Immune Globulin. GERMS, 10(3), 244-248. https://doi.org/10.18683/germs.2020.1211

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