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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease hepatitis b
Symptom C0267797|acute hepatitis
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PubMedID- 26155829 Cryptic hepatitis b and e in patients with acute hepatitis of unknown etiology.
PubMedID- 24646686 Studies from china have shown that acute hepatitis e patients with underlying chronic hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection may have a worse outcome than those without.
PubMedID- 22195250 In contrast to the above reports, other reports have shown an uncomplicated course of acute hepatitis a in patients with chronic hepatitis b. for example, tassopoulos and papaevangelou21 found no case of fulminant hepatitis among 10 hbsag carriers with acute hepatitis a and suggested that hav superinfection of hbsag carriers did not adversely influence the course of chronic hepatitis b. similarly, vento et al.23 revealed that, unlike patients with chronic hepatitis c, most patients with chronic hepatitis b who acquired hav infections had uncomplicated courses.
PubMedID- 23074018 The aim of present study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics of acute hepatitis a in cases with underlying chronic hepatitis b compared to cases of acute hepatitis a alone.

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