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3 dni temu · Hepatitis E is a viral infection that causes inflammation in your liver. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, abdominal pain, jaundice, dark pee, pale poop and itching. In most people, it gets better without treatment in a few weeks. But if you have hepatitis E while you’re pregnant, you’re at high risk for liver failure, miscarriage and ...
Symptoms. Diagnosis. Treatment. 2 min read. Hepatitis E is a virus that infects your liver. It can cause your liver to swell up. Most people with hepatitis E get better within a few months....
13 mar 2024 · If symptomatic infection does occur, it usually causes an acute self-limiting illness that is typically indistinguishable from other forms of acute viral hepatitis. However, rarely, acute liver failure can occur (pregnant women are particularly at risk).
26 cze 2023 · Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis in the world. Due to nonspecific symptoms and a self-limited disease course, it is also not frequently diagnosed. HEV is classified in the genus Orthohepevirus of the Hepeviridae family.
20 lip 2023 · Hepatitis E is an inflammation of the liver caused by infection with the hepatitis E virus (HEV). Every year there are an estimated 20 million HEV infections worldwide, leading to an estimated 3.3 million symptomatic cases of hepatitis E.
26 cze 2017 · The majority of the infections are asymptomatic or mild. In acute cases the disease is a self-limiting hepatitis affecting mostly male adults above 60 years of age; on rare occasions the infection can result in a severe, fulminant hepatitis with acute liver failure.
9 sie 2023 · Clinical features of hepatitis E virus infection – The clinical signs and symptoms in patients with typical HEV infection are similar to those seen with other forms of acute viral hepatitis. Jaundice is usually accompanied by malaise, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever, and hepatomegaly.
