[Nine cases of sporadic acute hepatitis E in Korea].
Hepatitis E virus is an enterically transmitted virus that causes endemic cases of acute hepatitis in many countries in Africa, and Southeast and Central Asia. Sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E also have been reported in developed countries. In non-endemic areas, most of the sporadic cases of hepatitis E are introduced from the endemic areas. Until now, only three cases of acute hepatitis E have been reported in Korea. Recently, we experienced nine cases of acute hepatitis, in which serologic studies showed positive of IgM anti-HEV. We report these as cases of acute hepatitis E. These cases suggest that HEV infection occurs sporadically in Korea and should be considered as a cause of cryptogenic acute hepatitis.
Lim
Jeong Woo
JW
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Park
Chan Sun
CS
Ahn
Jung Min
JM
Yu
Mi Hyun
MH
Kim
Taeg Soo
TS
Lim
Young-Suk
YS
Chung
Seok Won
SW
Kim
Gang Mo
GM
Chung
Young-Hwa
YH
Lee
Yung Sang
YS
Suh
Dong Jin
DJ
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged