Case report: Aplastic anaemia and gray matter heterotopias in an autopsy of a 17-year-old puerperal woman

Authors

  • Rodrigo Tzovenos Starosta Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
  • Carmen Liane Neubarth Estivallet HCPA
  • Pedro Guilherme Schaefer HCPA
  • Francine Hehn De Oliveira HCPA
  • Marcelle Reesink Cerski HCPA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22491/2357-9730.60824

Keywords:

aplastic anaemia, immunodepression, heterotopie in the brain, septicaemia

Abstract

In this report, we present an autopsy case of a 17-year-old girl with aplastic anaemia in the puerperal context, along with the presence of four independent nodular gray matter heterotopias in brain slices. The case is remarkable both by the rareness of the cause of death – septicaemia resulting from immunodepression due to aplastic anaemia in the obstetric context – and the brain morphologic findings unrelated to any known clinical manifestation. Immunohistochemistry was performed in order to ensure the precision of the diagnoses. 

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Published

2016-05-18

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Starosta RT, Estivallet CLN, Schaefer PG, De Oliveira FH, Cerski MR. Case report: Aplastic anaemia and gray matter heterotopias in an autopsy of a 17-year-old puerperal woman. Clin Biomed Res [Internet]. 2016 May 18 [cited 2026 Aug. 11];36(1). Available from: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/hcpa/article/view/60824

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Case Report: Images in Medicine

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