Acute Viral Hepatitis with Epidemiological Focus on Hepatitis A Virus Infection and Its Clinical Course in Adults

Autor: Manjushree Nayak, Umesh Chandra Patra, Jayanta Kumar Panda
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science. 4
ISSN: 2455-8737
DOI: 10.23958/ijirms/vol04-i10/755
Popis: In this prospective study, two hundred and fifty four patients diagnosed to be having AVH were analyzed with reference to clinical profile & viral markers and statistical analysis was done. Isolated viral infection was documented in 102 (40.1%) patients where as more than one hepatotrophic viruses caused AVH in 27(10.6%) patients. Non A-E Virus was the major case of sporadic AVH (40.1%), HBV & HEV were the etiological agent in 23.6% & 25.1% respectively. HAV was detected in 16.5% of the patients and the HCV was incriminated rarely as cause of sporadic AVH. The demographic, clinical and biochemical profile amongst isolated & mixed viral infection were found to be similar. However, HBV-AVH had significant prolonged course (p
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