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Persistent parvovirus B19 infection ending in carpal tunnel syndrome.

Musiani M, Manaresi E, Gallinella G, Zerbini M

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. University of Bologna, Italy.

A woman, showing chronic arthropaty after a B19 infection was followed for one year with quantitative determination of parvoviral DNA, specific IgM and IgG in blood. B19 arthopathy ended in Carpal tunnel syndrome, needing surgery, after 8 months of persistent B19 viremia, when IgM were already cleared but IgG values were still high.

Published 6 April 2007 in J Clin Pathol.
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