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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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Dosing ribavirin in hepatitis E-infected solid organ transplant recipients.

TL;DR: An overview of HEV epidemiology, its mode of transmission and clinical manifestations, as well as its treatment by ribavirin with a focus on the drug's pharmacokinetics and dosing is provided.
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Fatal autochthonous fulminant hepatitis E early after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

TL;DR: In immunocompromised patients such as solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, patients suffering from hematological malignancies treated by chemotherapy and/or stem cell transplantation and more rarely from HIV, HEV infections have been reported to cause chronic hepatitis rapidly leading to cirrhosis.
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Three cases of liver toxicity with a dietary supplement intended to stop hair loss

TL;DR: It is highlighted the importance of awareness regarding these substances at history taking in order to identify and report hepatic adverse reactions secondary to apparently safe herbs as described in the present manuscript.

Alanine Amino Transferase

TL;DR: The elevation of serum ALT concentration is a sensitive but not specific measure of hepatocellular injury, as the degree of elevation can not determine the exact cause.
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Hepatitis E: latest developments in knowledge

TL;DR: It has been confirmed that hepatitis E is a zoonosis and that parenteral transmission can also occur and treatment with ribavirin and/or pegylated-IFN-α have proven to be successful in some cases.
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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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