Three Sporadic Cases of Acute Hepatitis E / 대한소화기학회지
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
; : 121-125, 2007.
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en Ko
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ABSTRACT
Acute hepatitis E is an endemic disease, commonly reported in Indian subcontinent, China, Africa, Central America, and so forth. It is a self-limiting disease like other acute hepatitis except in pregnant patient. Although sporadic hepatitis E is noted all over the world, most of them are associated with travel history to HEV-endemic area. In Korea, Hepatitis E is rarely reported. Moreover, sporadic acute hepatitis E without travel history to HEV-endemic area is very rare. We experienced three sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E, without travel history. All of them presented acute hepatitis symptoms, elevated aminotransferase, and positive IgM HEV Ab. Symptoms and aminotransferase levels were normalized during hospitalization and IgM HEV Ab converted negative after 4-8 months. We report three sporadic cases of onset-acute hepatitis E without travel history to HEV-endemic area.
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Asunto principal:
Aspartato Aminotransferasas
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Enfermedad Aguda
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Hepatitis E
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Alanina Transaminasa
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
Ko
Revista:
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
Año:
2007
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Article