[A case of pleural effusion associated with acute hepatitis A].
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.
Ko
Young Sun
YS
Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Yoo
Ki Deok
KD
Hyun
Yil Sik
YS
Chung
Hae Ryoung
HR
Park
Soo Yuk
SY
Kim
Sun Min
SM
Jeon
Yong Cheol
YC
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