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Optic atrophy as a complication of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
C Elewaut1, F Meire, R Van Coster
1Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ghent, Gent, Belgium.
Bulletin De La Societe Belge D'Ophtalmologie
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A five-month-old girl with optic atrophy presented porencephaly on computerized tomography of the brain. Diffuse intracranial hemorrhages occurred in the neonatal period as a result of thrombocytopenia. As the maternal platelets were negative for the platelet antigens, the diagnosis of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia was made. The present case shows that optic atrophy as a single finding can lead to the diagnosis of a rare disorder.