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Kanta Bhambhani, MB, BS; Susumu Inoue, MD; Sharada A. Sarnaik, MB, BS

Am J Dis Child. 1988;142(2):175-177.

Abstract
• In a prospective study over two years, a clustering of transient erythroblastopenia of childhood (TEC) and aplastic crises in patients with hereditary hemolytic anemia was noted during the fall and winter months. Despite this clustering, evidence for human parvovirus infection was found only in aplastic crises in patients with hemolytic anemia but not in children with TEC. The seasonal clustering noted In the small group of patients in the prospective study was corroborated by a retrospective review of 39 consecutive patients with TEC seen in our institution over a five-year period.

(AJDC 1988;142:175-177)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit (Drs Bhambhani and Sarnaik); and the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Hurley Medical Center and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Flint (Dr Inoue).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 16, 1987.

Read in part before the Annual Meeting of the American Pediatric Society and the Society for Pediatric Research, Washington, DC, May 6, 1986.

Reprint requests to Children's Hospital of Michigan, 3901 Beaubien Blvd, Detroit, MI 48201 (Dr Bhambhani).

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