Fetal cerebellar hemorrhage in parvovirus-associated non-immune hydrops fetalis, Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, Informa Healthcare

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Fetal cerebellar hemorrhage in parvovirus-associated non-immune hydrops fetalis

2007, Vol. 20, No. 10 , Pages 769-772 (doi:10.1080/14767050701580960)

Orit A. Glenn, MD¹ ^†, Katherine Bianco², A. James Barkovich¹, Peter W. Callen¹ and Julian T. Parer²

¹Department of Radiology,

²Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

^†Correspondence: Orit A. Glenn, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology Section, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Box #0628, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0628, USA, 415-353-1668, 415-353-2871 orit.glenn@radiology.ucsf.edu

We report two cases of fetal cerebellar hemorrhage in the setting of parvovirus-associated hydrops fetalis and fetal blood transfusion. In both cases, the cerebellar hemorrhage was diagnosed by fetal magnetic resonance imaging after intrauterine blood transfusion. To our knowledge, this is the first report of fetal cerebellar hemorrhage in the setting of parvovirus-associated hydrops fetalis, and may be the result of cerebrovascular changes both during and after the transfusion.