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Magdalena Baymakova Viral hepatitis is among the most common viral infections in infectious disease departments. They occupy an important place in the daily clinical practice of physicians. A recent study by Dr. Magdalen...
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Ibrahim M. Sayed, Haidi Karam-Allah Ramadan Extrahepatic disorders such as renal or neurological manifestations, cryoglobulinemia, and pancreatitis were reported with HEV infection. These disorders were reported mainly during HEV-3 or HEV-4 chr...
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Miriam Frankal Following exposure to hepatitis E virus (HEV), liver transplant recipients have increased risk of developing chronic infection, which may rapidly progress to severe liver damage if not treated. Despit...
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David Bauer, Thomas Reiberger The results of a recent study conducted at the Vienna General Hospital, led by Prof. Thomas Reiberger and Dr. David Bauer, showed that mortality due to acute hepatitis E is low despite liver function ...
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Maria Silva Hepatitis E is a rising cause of acute hepatitis in developed nations. Most cases result in a mild and spontaneously cleared disease. Severe infections are characteristic of patients with previously e...
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Peter Asaga Mac HEV infection may be life-threatening in pregnant women and has been linked with 20–30% mortality, especially in the third trimester of pregnancy. HEV infection leads to elevated levels of preterm l...
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Robert Fontana Establishing a diagnosis of idiosyncratic drug induced liver injury (DILI) is challenging due to the need to exclude more common causes of acute liver injury such as viral hepatitis, pancreaticobiliar...
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Sebastien Lhomme Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the major cause of viral hepatitis worldwide. While the water borne HEV genotypes 1 and 2 are found in developing countries, HEV genotypes 3 and 4 are endemic in developed c...
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Zhongren Ma, Robert de Man, Nassim KAMAR, Qiuwei Abdullah Pan The hepatitis E virus (HEV) was initially thought to exclusively cause acute hepatitis. However, the first diagnosis of chronic hepatitis E in transplant recipients in 2008 profoundly changed our unde...
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Ibrahim M. Sayed, Haidi Karam-Allah Ramadan Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a neglected pathogen in Egypt. Although, the initial studies conducted on HEV in Egypt in the past two decades showed high seroprevalence of anti-HEV IgG among villagers and...
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EVENTS
2023-04-28
2nd International HEV Symposium The meeting will be held from April 28 to 29, 2023, in London. The 2-day meeting will feature talks and presentations given on the latest updates on HEV epidemiology, diagnostics, treatment, laboratory research, and disease control.
More information: https://www.ivi.int/hev-symposium-2023/