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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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An assessment by the Statin Liver Safety Task Force: 2014 update

TL;DR: This panel provides diagnostic and algorithmic approaches when evaluating statin-treated patients who experience elevations in liver enzymes, including the value of baseline liver enzymes before initiating statin therapy, and safety of statin use in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Drug-induced Acute Liver Failure

TL;DR: Although acute liver failure caused by drug-induced liver injury comprises a small fraction of overall drug induced liver injury, these patients require high resource use and have relatively poor outcomes as mentioned in this paper.
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Antidepressant-induced liver injury: a review for clinicians

TL;DR: Although an infrequent event, DILI from antidepressant drugs may be irreversible, and clinicians should be aware of it, and prompt discontinuation of the drug responsible is essential.
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Hepatitis E virus infection among solid organ transplant recipients, the Netherlands

TL;DR: This immunocompromised population is at risk for hepatitis E virus infection, and living heart, lung, liver, Liver, and kidney transplant recipients are screened by reverse transcription PCR.
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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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