Varicella Vaccination During Early Pregnancy: A Cause of
in utero Miliary Fetal Tissue Calcifications and Hydrops?

Joseph  Apuzzio; Vijaya  Ganesh; Leslie  Iffy; Anthony  Al-Khan

doi:10.1155/S1064744902000169

Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Jan 2002)

Varicella Vaccination During Early Pregnancy: A Cause of in utero Miliary Fetal Tissue Calcifications and Hydrops?

Joseph Apuzzio,
Vijaya Ganesh,
Leslie Iffy,
Anthony Al-Khan

Affiliations

Joseph Apuzzio: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health, New Jersey Medical School, l85 South Orange Avenue, MSB, E-506 Newark, Newark 07103-2714, NJ, USA
Vijaya Ganesh: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health, New Jersey Medical School, l85 South Orange Avenue, MSB, E-506 Newark, Newark 07103-2714, NJ, USA
Leslie Iffy: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health, New Jersey Medical School, l85 South Orange Avenue, MSB, E-506 Newark, Newark 07103-2714, NJ, USA
Anthony Al-Khan: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health, New Jersey Medical School, l85 South Orange Avenue, MSB, E-506 Newark, Newark 07103-2714, NJ, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/S1064744902000169
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 3
pp. 159 – 160

Abstract

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Background: It is the purpose of this article to describe a suspected association of inadvertent vaccination with varicella vaccine during early pregnancy with the subsequent development of in utero miliary fetal tissue calcifications and fetal hydrops detected by sonogram at 15 weeks of gestation.

Published in Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology

ISSN: 1064-7449 (Print); 1098-0997 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Gynecology and obstetrics; Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7281

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