title: [A case of acute hepatitis E].
abstract: Hepatitis E is an infectious viral disease with clinical and morphologic features of acute hepatitis. Although HEV infection is endemic in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast and Central Asia, a large outbreak of hepatitis E was identified in China. Smaller outbreaks have been observed in the Middle East, northern and western parts of Africa, and Mexico. Sporadic hepatitis E also has been observed in several countries. In nonendemic regions, the sporadic cases of hepatitis E are almost always associated with travel to HEV-endemic regions. In Korea, there has been no report on hepatitis E. Recently, we experienced a case of acute icteric hepatitis in which serologic study showed seroconversion of IgM anti-HEV. The patient did not have any travel history to an HEV-endemic area. We report this as an initial case of acute hepatitis E in Korea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, In-Je University College of Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea.
authors.forename: Nam Jin
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: June Sung
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kyung Ah
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hye Ran
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jang Weon
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Yi Dae
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Woo Jin
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hyun Wook
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Baik
authors.forename: Young Bin
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Jeon
authors.forename: Chung Yong
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male