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An update on hepatitis B, D, and E viruses.
Although newer and more effective treatments are now available for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, non-HCV viral hepatitis remains an important cause of liver disease, especially among HIV-infected individuals. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the leading cause of cirrhosis worldwide, and approximately one-quarter of patients with cirrhosis develop decompensated liver disease within 5 years. Initi...
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Abstract There are some reports about hepatitis B and C Virus infection in hemophiliacs in different part of our country. We studied Guilan Province hemophiliacs to determine the frequency of hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg), anti hepatitis C antibody and liver function test impairments. This study was done from Feb to Apr 1999 among hemophiliacs registered in Guilan Hemophilia Society. Pat...
متن کاملEnteric hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis viruses are infectious agents that can infect liver and cause inflammation. The infection triggers immune response against infected cells that leads to the destruction of hepatic cells. This destruction has two consequences: leaking ALT and AST liver enzymes which increases during the course of disease and accumulation of bilirubin- a red pigmented compound released from dead red cell...
متن کاملEnteric hepatitis viruses
The term “hepatitis viruses” refers to a diverse group of viruses all of which have the human liver as the primary target of replication and give rise to hepatitis or inflammation of the liver. Their replication may result in mass destruction of liver cells. Consequences include failure of the liver to fulfil basic functions such as removal of bilirubin from the circulatory blood system. Biliru...
متن کاملEnteric Hepatitis Viruses
Background The term ‘‘jaundice’’ was used as early as in the ancient Greece when Hippocrates described an illness probably corresponding to a viral hepatitis. However, it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century AU :1 when a form of hepatitis was associated to an infectious disease occurring in epidemics and the term ‘‘infectious hepatitis’’ was established. Later on in the early 19...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.173