The simultaneous development of acute hyperparathyroidism and viral hepatitis B infection in a 72 year old male is described. Resolution of the hepatitis was accompanied by improvement in the parathyroid hormone mediated hypercalcaemia. It is postulated that antibodies to the hepatitis B virus may have altered the calcium 'set point' allowing uncontrolled synthesis and release of parathyroid ho...

The prevalence of serological markers of viruses causing acute hepatitis in south indian population a b a c Viral hepatitis Serological Markers Vaccination Enzyme Linked Immuno Sarbent Assay.

context several risk factors play the role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) from which chronic hepatitis b and c infections are the most important ones. dna integration of hepatitis viruses alters the function of critical genes promoting malignant transformation of virus-infected liver cells. evidence acquisition there are remarkable geographic differences in prevalence of c...

Reprinted with permission from CME August 2005 Vol. 23 No. 8 M any viruses can infect the liver, but are usually not able to enter hepatocytes due to certain barriers such as the activity of Kupffer cells. Viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus frequently cause hepatitis as part of a systemic illness, but this is seldom the main symptom. The typical hepatitis virus is able to en...

One hundred liver biopsies from 100 hepatitis patients were examined by the indirect immunofluorescent technique for the detection of HBsAg. Of the 60 positive specimens 52 were diagnosed as various types of chronic hepatitis and 8 were acute hepatitis. Four main distribution patterns of HBsAg were obtained: full cytoplasmic fluorescence with diffuse lobular distribution; cytoplasmic fluorescen...

BACKGROUND Viral hepatitis is an important preventable infectious disease with various rates of occurrence in different areas of the world. The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the role of some risk factors in predicting a positive acute viral hepatitis marker among patients with suspected acute viral hepatitis in a primary health care setting in Baghdad. Besides, finding out...

Serological markers were used to determine the infective agents causing acute viral hepatitis in 246 patients. The frequencies of the five viral infections investigated were: non-A, non-B hepatitis 99 patients (40.2%); hepatitis A 98 patients (39.8%); hepatitis B 43 patients (17.5%); cytomegalovirus » 4 patients (1.6%); and EpsteinBarr virus 2 patients (0.8%). The log mean ages of presentation ...