Micrograph showing ground glass hepatocytes, which are seen in chronic hepatitis B infections (a type of viral hepatitis), and represent accumulations of viral antigen in the endoplasmic reticulum. H&E stain.
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Infectious diseases, gastroenterology
Viral hepatitis is liver inflammation due to a viral infection.[1][2] It may present in acute form as a recent infection with relatively rapid onset, or in chronic form, typically progressing from a long-lasting asymptomatic condition up to a decompensated hepatic disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).[3]
The most common causes of viral hepatitis are the five unrelated hepatotropic viruses hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. Other viruses can also cause liver inflammation, including cytomegalovirus, Epstein–Barr virus, and yellow fever. There also have been scores of recorded cases of viral hepatitis caused by herpes simplex virus.[4]
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immunity to the specific viral infection. Some viruses, including those that cause HIV/AIDS, HPV infection, and viralhepatitis, evade these immune responses...
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already carry the viral oncogene.[citation needed] Hepatitis viruses, including hepatitis B and hepatitis C, can induce a chronic viral infection that leads...
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is elevated in chronic hepatitis, alcoholic and autoimmune hepatitis. It's slow and sustained increase is seen in viralhepatitis. IgM significantly increased...
bilirubin is directly proportional to the degree of hepatocyte injury. Viralhepatitis can also cause the rise in conjugated bilirubin. In parenchymal liver...
contains 500 U of viral antigen. The pediatric dose contains 250 U of viral antigen.[citation needed] Vaqta: made by Merck. Inactivated hepatitis A virus produced...
to viralhepatitis and alcohol are the main reason for seeking specialist advice. More than two billion people have been infected with hepatitis B virus...
diseases, in particular tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus and viralhepatitis. During the COVID-19 pandemic Luetkemeyer led a clinical trial of remdesivir...
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the skin or sclera of the eye). The most common cause was malaria. Viralhepatitis and bacterial infections of the blood stream (sepsis) may have caused...
routine testing is available for HIV-1, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus. Viral load monitoring for HIV is of particular interest in...
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