Follow-up study of adult patients with acute hepatitis in Egypt

ABSTRACT

Follow up study was done for 56 patients with acute hepatitis 8-12 months from the onset of their illness. They included 37 patients with hepatitis B and 18 patients with possible non A non B hepatitis. Persistence of antigenoemia was found in 8.6% of acute HB cases and anti-HBs appeared in 75.7% of these cases while all of them had anti-HBc in their sera. We concluded that anti-HBc is the best marker to diagnose past exposure to HB. Liver function tests are normal in most of the followed cases. Few cases only showed mild disturbance of L.F.T. No significant difference between the rate of resolution of acute hepatitis in both groups