title: [Three sporadic cases of acute hepatitis E].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastrointestinal Medicine, Saint Gallolo Hospital, Suncheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Dong Han
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyeuk
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Seung Won
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Jong Hyuk
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.forename: Hyuk Seung
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Do Hyun
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Ho Dong
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D000410:Alanine Transaminase