Congenital hypoplastic thrombocytopenia in rubella embryopathy.

Abstract

SUMMARYAn infant born to a mother who had had rubella in early pregnancy exhibited cataract and congenital heart disease as typical features of a rubella embryopathy but had in addition purpura on the basis of a hypoplastic thrombocytopenia. It is suggested that this is a further manifestation of the rubella embryopathy. Similar cases reported in the literature may have been due to the same etiology. On the other hand congenital hypoplastic thrombocytopenia associated with aplasia of the radius is probably a genetic disorder transmitted as a recessive character.