Purpura in Congenital and Acquired Rubella

THE observation of a newborn infant with widespread petechiae and thrombocytopenia born to a mother who had had rubella during the 1964 epidemic stimulated us to seek other newborn and older children with purpura associated with rubella. Twenty-two such patients were found, and the clinical and morphologic observations relevant to this hemorrhagic phenomenon form the basis for this report.Several manifestations of congenital rubella have been added to the cataracts and heart defects described by Gregg1 in 1941, but purpura has not been a conspicuous feature until recently. In a report of the teratogenic effects of rubella in Great Britain . . .