Pediatr. praxi. 2025;26(4):246-248 | DOI: 10.36290/ped.2025.048

How an infection revealed a congenital disease

MUDr. Petr Birke1, MUDr. Barbora Ludíková, Ph.D.1, MUDr. Lenka Bakaj Zbrožková, Ph.D.2
1 Dětská klinika LF Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci a FN Olomouc
2 Radiologická klinika LF Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci a FN Olomouc

Parvovirus B19 not only causes erythema infectiosum, it can also cause myocarditis, arthralgias and/or arthritis, and can cause hydrops fetalis, pure red blood cell aplasia in immunocompromised individuals, and finally transient aplastic crisis in patients with congenital hemolytic anemias. We present the case of a boy who was diagnosed with hereditary spherocytosis at the age of six due to parvovirus B19 infection.

Keywords: congenital hemolytic anemia, hereditary spherocytosis, parvovirus B19, transient aplastic crisis, cholelithiasis.

Accepted: August 20, 2025; Published: September 26, 2025  Show citation

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Birke P, Ludíková B, Bakaj Zbrožková L. How an infection revealed a congenital disease. Pediatr. praxi. 2025;26(4):246-248. doi: 10.36290/ped.2025.048.
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