ASSOZIATION EINES NICHT IMMUNOLOGISCH BEDINGTEN HYDROPS FETALIS MIT EINER PARVOVIRUS-B19-INFEKTION

Five weeks after the onset of clinical symptoms of erythema infectiosum, a 24 year old pregnant women, gravida I, para 0, suffered a hydrops fetalis which resulted in fetal loss. The maternal infection with the human parvovirus B19 could be confirmed serologically with ELISA and immunblot by detecting specific IgM antibodies against B19. In an amniotic sample of the fetus Parvovirus B19 DNA could be detected by hybridisation. Fetal loss was obviously due to a parvovirus B19 infection of the moterh and the fetus.