Clinical features of Hepatitis E virus infection in Ibaraki, Japan: Autochthonous Hepatitis E and acute-on-chronic liver failure

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 235, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 275-282

  Inagaki, Yuki ^a   Oshiro, Yukio ^a   Hasegawa, Naoyuki ^a   Fukuda, Kuniaki ^a   Abei, Masato ^a   Nishi, Masaaki ^b   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^c   Ohkohchi, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Department of Urology Tsukuba Gakuen Hospital   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; Acute on chronic liver failure; Alcoholic liver disease; Autoimmune hepatitis; Hepatitis E virus

Indexed keywords

GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MONOAMMONIUM GLYCYRRHIZINATE; NEOMINOPHAGEN C; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BED REST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; PORK; SHELLFISH; THYROIDITIS; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; LIVER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE-ON-CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; AGED; BIOPSY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84925355708     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.235.275     Document Type: Article

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