Intraventricular hemorrhage and multiple intracranial cysts associated with congenital cytomegalovirus infection.

J Clin Microbiol

Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Published: July 2013

Intraventricular hemorrhage with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is rare and has been reported only in extremely premature infants or in association with thrombocytopenia. We report the first case of a full-term male infant with congenital CMV infection and intraventricular hemorrhage with a normal platelet count and coagulation profile. The infant also had a left subependymal cyst and bilateral occipital cysts without any other manifestations of CMV infection.

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