title: [A case of pleural effusion associated with acute hepatitis A].
abstract: Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is common in developing countries, including Korea. It can be accompanied by extrahepatic complications such as renal failure, arthritis, and vasculitis. Pleural effusion is a very rare complication of HAV infection, which has been reported usually in children, and has benign clinical courses. Here we report a case of pleural effusion with ascites which occurred in an adult hepatitis A patient. A 26-year-old-woman presented generalized myalgia and fever and was diagnosed as acute hepatitis A. Despite of the improvement of laboratory findings, fever and cough persisted. Pleural effusion newly appeared on the serial chest radiologic images. After the fever settled down, the pleural effusion resolved spontaneously at 13th day of admission.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Young Sun
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Ki Deok
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: Yil Sik
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Hyun
authors.forename: Hae Ryoung
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Soo Yuk
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Sun Min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yong Cheol
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Jeon
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed