Case 21-1989
- 25 May 1989
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 320 (21) , 1399-1410
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198905253202108
Abstract
Presentation of CaseA newborn girl was admitted to the hospital because of respiratory distress, muscular hypotonia, and cutaneous vesicles.The child was born at full term by a normal spontaneous vaginal delivery and was the second child of a 29-year-old mother. The pregnancy was complicated by hyperemesis during the first trimester, which required hospital admission for rehydration; at four months of pregnancy a herpetic lesion on the mother's buttock yielded herpes simplex virus, Type II, on culture; no genital lesions were detected. Delivery occurred 1 1/2 hours after artificial rupture of membranes. The birth weight was 3.94 kg. At . . .Keywords
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