Patients with chronic viral hepatitis usually have a sustained increase in alanine transaminase activity. Las principales manifestaciones consisten en neumonitis, hepatitis, enteritis y menos frecuentemente linfadenopatia y meningitis aseptica. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Incidence of hepatitis a in the united states in the era of vaccination. A large outbreak of hepatitis a in a daycare center. Safety and efficacy of lamivudine in patients with severe. Chronic viral liver disease may be detected as a result of finding abnormal liver biochemistry during serological testing of asymptomatic patients in high risk groups or as a result of the complications of cirrhosis. We treated patients with severe acute or fulminant hepatitis b with lamivudine in an attempt to prevent hepatitis b virus hbv reinfection after potential liver transplantation. Hospital universitario materno infantil vall dhebron. Epidemiological aspects of acute viral hepatitis in sao paulo.
Hepatitis a virus hav, hepatitis b virus hbv, hepatitis c virus hcv, hepatitis d virus hdv, and hepatitis e virus hev. As few reports on the prevalence of each type of viral hepatitis have been published in our country, we studied 154 patients with acute viral hepatitis consecutively seen at the liver unit from november 1980 to november 1984. Hav usually presents a benign course without evolution to chronicity. At this time, five different human hepatitis viruses are recognized and characterized in detail. Viral hepatitis in children viral hepatitis is a systemic disease. Acute hepatitis b progresses to liver failure with the need of liver transplantation in about 1% of cases.
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