TY - JOUR T1 - Necrosis of infantile haemangioma with propranolol therapy JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2018-316478 SP - e316478 AU - Jamie Alexander Grech AU - Thomas Calleja AU - Paul Soler AU - David Pace Y1 - 2019/01/28 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/01/28/archdischild-2018-316478.abstract N2 - A 4-month-old girl born at 30+6 weeks’ gestation was started on propranolol 1.5 mg/kg/day in three divided doses for a rapidly growing infantile haemangioma (IH) on the scalp. Two weeks later the haemangioma became painful with wet necrosis (figure 1) and an offensive serosanguinous discharge, from which Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and anaerobes were cultured. She was systemically well and afebrile. Propranolol was stopped and the infection … ER -