background many studies have been done on the epidemiology of hepatitis e on general population, but the data among patients with end stage renal disease (esrd) are few and give conflicting results. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hepatitis e virus (hev) infection and its relationship in esrd patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (hd). patients and m...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis E virus infection usually causes an acute and self-resolving hepatitis. In areas where chronic hepatitis B virus infection is prevalent, acute hepatitis E virus superinfection on chronic hepatitis B virus infection occurs sporadically. In recent years, however, chronic hepatitis E virus infection has been recognized in patients under immunosuppressant therapy. To the best o...

chronic liver diseases in children is the result of many different diseases including: metabolic, genetic, infectious, toxic and idiopathic causes. this was a case series study on 133 infants and children with age range 6 month to 12 years old, who presented clinically with manifestation of chronic liver disease and were admitted to children hospital medical center from year 1999 to 2000. in th...

hepatitis delta virus (hdv) infection results in more severe and even fulminant form of hepatitis b in co-infected cases. this study was designed to estimate the prevalence of anti-hdv positivity and the associated risk factors in patients with chronic hepatitis b virus infection in zahedan (iran). in this cross-sectional study a total of 440 consecutive patients with chronic hepatitis b virus ...

alpha-interferon therapy has been approved for treatment of chronic hepatitis c and b. candidates for treatment are patients with well-compensated liver disease and histologic evidences of chronic hepatitis who have demonstrated abnormal aminotransferase levels for more than 6 months. from 30 patients with chronic hepatitis with diseases prolonged more than 6 months, we selected only 16 patient...

background oxidative stress plays a major pathogenic role in liver injury following chronic hepatitis b. glutathione peroxidase (gpx) has a central role in regulating the oxidative state. hepatitis b virus (hbv) results in down-regulation of gpx. on the other hand, iron homeostasis is disrupted in hbv infected patients. therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the interplay of gpx a...

background and objectives: accurate detection of type and severity of hepatitis is crucial for effective treatment of the disease. while several computational algorithms for detection of hepatitis have been proposed to date, their limited performance leaves room for further improvement. this paper proposes a novel computational method for the diagnosis of hepatitis b using pattern detection tec...