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Acute Hepatitis E Infection Accounts for Some Cases of Suspected Drug-Induced Liver Injury

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HEV infection contributes to a small but important proportion of cases of acute liver injury that are suspected to be drug induced, andSerologic testing for HEV infection should be performed, particularly if clinical features are compatible with acute viral hepatitis.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2011-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 295 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hepatitis E & Viral hepatitis.

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New foe treated with old guns – supportive role of steroids in the treatment of acute severe hepatitis E

TL;DR: Steroid treatment might be an option to prevent progress of life-threatening liver failure and liver transplantation in patients with hepatitis E-induced acute liver injury and high-grade inflammation.
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Hepatitis e virus detection in liver tissue from patients with suspected drug-induced liver injury.

TL;DR: The overall frequency of acuteHEV infection as determined by detection of HEV RNA in liver tissue is substantially increased in patients with suspected DILI compared to the healthy population, emphasizing the need to actively look for HEV infection in cases of suspected DilI.
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Hepatitis E in Transplantation.

TL;DR: In this comprehensive review, the current knowledge regarding HEV diagnosis, its natural history, clinical manifestations, and treatments in patients with a solid-organ transplant are summarized.
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How to Diagnose and Exclude Drug-Induced Liver Injury

TL;DR: In the future, it should be possible to construct improved diagnostic instruments that objectively incorporate DILI signatures, data-based estimates of the incidence rates of D ILI from each implicated drug, and perhaps genetic variants associated with the risk of DILi.
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Causality assessment of adverse reactions to drugs--I. A novel method based on the conclusions of international consensus meetings: application to drug-induced liver injuries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new method for drug causality assessment is described and applied to reports of acute liver injuries, using reports with positive rechallenge as external standard.
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Hepatitis E virus and chronic hepatitis in organ-transplant recipients.

TL;DR: The time from transplantation to diagnosis was significantly shorter and the total counts of lymphocytes and of CD2, CD3, and CD4 T cells were significantly lower in patients in whom chronic disease developed.
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A novel virus in swine is closely related to the human hepatitis E virus

TL;DR: The discovery of swine HEV not only has implications for HEV vaccine development, diagnosis, and biology, but also raises a potential public health concern for zoonosis or xenozoonosis following xenotransplantation with pig organs.
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Hepatitis E virus.

TL;DR: Hepatitis E virus is an enterically transmitted virus that causes both epidemics and sporadic cases of acute hepatitis in many countries of Asia and Africa but only rarely causes disease in more industrialised countries.
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