A Rare Case of Chronic Liver Disease in a Patient Who Previously Presented With Hepatitis E

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is among the most common causes of acute viral hepatitis. It typically causes acute infection, but some cases of chronic infection have also been recorded. These cases were particularly seen in developed countries, in patients who were immunocompromised, organ transplant reci...

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Autores principales: Majeed, Ramsha, Khalid, Mahnoor, Sherazi, Mahnoor, Faisal, Mohammad J, Waheed, Muhammad Awais
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10051036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37007339
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35474
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author Majeed, Ramsha
Khalid, Mahnoor
Sherazi, Mahnoor
Faisal, Mohammad J
Waheed, Muhammad Awais
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Khalid, Mahnoor
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description Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is among the most common causes of acute viral hepatitis. It typically causes acute infection, but some cases of chronic infection have also been recorded. These cases were particularly seen in developed countries, in patients who were immunocompromised, organ transplant recipients, or those with underlying hematological malignancy. However, we encountered a case of hepatitis E presenting as a chronic liver disease in an immunocompetent patient from a developing country. Therefore, more underlying risk factors need to be studied, which may lead to such a rare presentation of hepatitis E.   
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spelling pubmed-100510362023-03-30 A Rare Case of Chronic Liver Disease in a Patient Who Previously Presented With Hepatitis E Majeed, Ramsha Khalid, Mahnoor Sherazi, Mahnoor Faisal, Mohammad J Waheed, Muhammad Awais Cureus Internal Medicine Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is among the most common causes of acute viral hepatitis. It typically causes acute infection, but some cases of chronic infection have also been recorded. These cases were particularly seen in developed countries, in patients who were immunocompromised, organ transplant recipients, or those with underlying hematological malignancy. However, we encountered a case of hepatitis E presenting as a chronic liver disease in an immunocompetent patient from a developing country. Therefore, more underlying risk factors need to be studied, which may lead to such a rare presentation of hepatitis E.    Cureus 2023-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10051036/ /pubmed/37007339 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35474 Text en Copyright © 2023, Majeed et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Majeed, Ramsha
Khalid, Mahnoor
Sherazi, Mahnoor
Faisal, Mohammad J
Waheed, Muhammad Awais
A Rare Case of Chronic Liver Disease in a Patient Who Previously Presented With Hepatitis E
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title_full A Rare Case of Chronic Liver Disease in a Patient Who Previously Presented With Hepatitis E
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Chronic Liver Disease in a Patient Who Previously Presented With Hepatitis E
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title_short A Rare Case of Chronic Liver Disease in a Patient Who Previously Presented With Hepatitis E
title_sort rare case of chronic liver disease in a patient who previously presented with hepatitis e
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10051036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37007339
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35474
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