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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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Drug-Induced Liver Injury Research Networks

TL;DR: The increasing use of electronic medical records coupled with the application of natural language processing algorithms may further help identify DILI patients for future studies and continuing advances in genomic methods may allow us to better identify risk factors for DILi susceptibility and diagnosis.
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Hepatitis E – effect on the liver and beyond

TL;DR: A recombinant vaccine approved in China in 2011 opens up prospects for the specific prevention measures in areas identified as being at risk to limit the consequences of hepatitis E virus infection in the general population and exposed groups.
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Hepatitis-E-induced cholestasis in a child: a case report.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors described a case of hepatitis-E-induced cholestasis in a child, an 8-year-old male child presented to a Pediatrics emergency with fever and features of acute cholhestasis.
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Potential Effects of Dietary Isoflavones on Drug-Induced Liver Injury

TL;DR: The current review will elaborate on isoflavones’ preventive and therapeutic potential concisely and highlight various molecular targets to exert a protective effect on 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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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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