Three Sporadic Cases of Acute Hepatitis E.
- Author:
Dong Han KIM
1
;
Hyeuk PARK
;
Seung Won MOON
;
Jong Hyuk JEONG
;
Hyuk Seung YANG
;
Do Hyun KIM
;
Ho Dong KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Gastrointestinal Medicine, Saint Gallolo Hospital, Suncheon, Korea. hparkmd@hanmail.net
- Publication Type:Case Report ; English Abstract
- Keywords:
Acute hepatitis E;
IgM anti-HEV;
Hepatits E virus
- MeSH:
Acute Disease;
Adult;
Alanine Transaminase/analysis;
Aspartate Aminotransferases/analysis;
Female;
Hepatitis E/*diagnosis;
Humans;
Male
- From:The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
2007;50(2):121-125
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Acute hepatitis E is an endemic disease, commonly reported in Indian subcontinent, China, Africa, Central America, and so forth. It is a self-limiting disease like other acute hepatitis except in pregnant patient. Although sporadic hepatitis E is noted all over the world, most of them are associated with travel history to HEV-endemic area. In Korea, Hepatitis E is rarely reported. Moreover, sporadic acute hepatitis E without travel history to HEV-endemic area is very rare. We experienced three sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E, without travel history. All of them presented acute hepatitis symptoms, elevated aminotransferase, and positive IgM HEV Ab. Symptoms and aminotransferase levels were normalized during hospitalization and IgM HEV Ab converted negative after 4-8 months. We report three sporadic cases of onset-acute hepatitis E without travel history to HEV-endemic area.
