[Three sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E].
Acute hepatitis E is an endemic disease, commonly reported in Indian subcontinent, China, Africa, Central America, and so forth. It is a self-limiting disease like other acute hepatitis except in pregnant patient. Although sporadic hepatitis E is noted all over the world, most of them are associated with travel history to HEV-endemic area. In Korea, Hepatitis E is rarely reported. Moreover, sporadic acute hepatitis E without travel history to HEV-endemic area is very rare. We experienced three sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E, without travel history. All of them presented acute hepatitis symptoms, elevated aminotransferase, and positive IgM HEV Ab. Symptoms and aminotransferase levels were normalized during hospitalization and IgM HEV Ab converted negative after 4-8 months. We report three sporadic cases of onset-acute hepatitis E without travel history to HEV-endemic area.
Kim
Dong Han
DH
Department of Gastrointestinal Medicine, Saint Gallolo Hospital, Suncheon, Korea.
Park
Hyeuk
H
Moon
Seung Won
SW
Jeong
Jong Hyuk
JH
Yang
Hyuk Seung
HS
Kim
Do Hyun
DH
Kim
Ho Dong
HD
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000032:analysis; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D016751:Hepatitis E / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D000410:Alanine Transaminase