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Case Reports in Hepatology
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 1359486, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/1359486
Case Report

Severe Aplastic Anemia following Parvovirus B19-Associated Acute Hepatitis

Masanori Furukawa,1 Kosuke Kaji,1 Hiroyuki Masuda,1 Kuniaki Ozaki,1 Shohei Asada,1 Aritoshi Koizumi,1 Takuya Kubo,1 Norihisa Nishimura,1 Yasuhiko Sawada,1 Kosuke Takeda,1 Tsuyoshi Mashitani,1 Masayuki Kubo,2 Itsuto Amano,2 Tomoyuki Ootani,3 Chiho Ohbayashi,3 Koji Murata,4 Tatsuichi Ann,4 Akira Mitoro,1 and Hitoshi Yoshiji1

1Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan
2Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan
3Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan
4Division of Gastroenterology, Bell Land General Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Correspondence should be addressed to Kosuke Kaji; pj.ca.u-demaran@kijak

Received 14 February 2017; Accepted 12 April 2017; Published 20 April 2017

Academic Editor: Melanie Deutsch

Copyright © 2017 Masanori Furukawa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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