Multiple petechiae and suggilations were present at birth, thrombocytopenia and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy with unmeasurable thrombin time repeatedly required multiple thrombocyte concentrate and fresh-frozen plasma transfusions.
Their head, neck, and upper chest were strikingly cyanotic and edematous, with multiple petechiae; they also had bilateral subconjunctival hemorrhages (Figs. 1, 2).
Perte's syndrome or traumatic asphyxia is a clinical syndrome associated with craniocervical cyanosis, subconjunctival hemorrhage, multiple petechiae, and neurological symptoms.
The head, neck, and upper chest were strikingly cyanotic and edematous, with multiple petechiae; he also had bilateral subconjunctival hemorrhages and bilateral hemopneumothorax Fig. 2 Photograph showing subconjunctival hemorrhages with traumatic asphyxia.
Two specimens revealed subcapsular haemorrhages with multiple petechiae on the surface of the liver.
At autopsy, local pulmonary consolidation and petechiae in throat, trachea, and/or intestine has been observed.
Appearance of petechiae in the neonatal period led to the diagnosis of the WAS.
There was bloody intestinal content, petechiae in the mucosa of the urinary bladder, and also petechiae and ecchymoses in the pericardium and epicardium.
Findings on necropsy were cyanosis and petechiae in the oral mucosa, tongue, and gastrointestinal mucosa.
Hemorrhages at the tip of the glands or petechiae in the mucosa of the proventriculus were infrequently found.
