scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

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

TLDR
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.
About
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.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

A Case of Jaundice of Obscure Origin

TL;DR: Empiric treatment with prednisone led to rapid resolution of jaundice and to the conclusion that the correct diagnosis was antibody-negative AIH, with an associated grave prognosis.
Journal ArticleDOI

Reviewing methods of deep learning for diagnosing COVID-19, its variants and synergistic medicine combinations

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore the realistic development of DL-driven COVID-19 detection methods and focus on the fully automatic framework using available resources, which can effectively investigate various coronavirus variants through modalities.

L'hépatite aiguë E autochtone : facteur de décompensation de la cirrhose

TL;DR: Dans notre population, the prevalence of l'hepatite aigue E (HEA) chez les patients avec une cirrhose decompensee etait de 6,5%.
Journal ArticleDOI

Hepatitis-E-induced cholestasis in a child: a case report

TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe 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.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Journal ArticleDOI

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.
Related Papers (5)