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Fetal meconium peritonitis after maternal hepatitis A
1Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente, Denver, Colorado, USA.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
|April 16, 1999
Abstract:
Hepatitis A virus has rarely been implicated in congenital infections. After maternal hepatitis A at 13 weeks' gestation, ultrasonographic examinations revealed fetal ascites (20 weeks) and meconium peritonitis (33 weeks). After delivery, a perforated distal ileum was resected. Elevated levels of hepatitis A immunoglobulin G persisted in the infant 6 months after delivery.