PEDIATRICS Vol. 62 No. 4 October 1978, pp. 567-569
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Thrombocytopenic Purpura Related to Rubella Infection

Sinasi Özsoylu M.D.1, Güler Kanra M.D.1, and Gülersu Savascedil M.D.1

1 Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology, and Hacettepe Children's Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

Serologic studies for rubella (hemagglutination inhibition and complement fixation changes) were carried out at two-week intervals in 15 patients with acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and in age-matched controls in the same season during a small rubella epidemic. Hemagglutination inhibition, sucrose density gradient for hemagglutination inhibition, and complement fixation titer changes implicated recent rubella infection as an etiologic factor in five of the 15 patients.

Submitted on October 13, 1977
Accepted on March 23, 1978